Eureka!
I tried what this link
http://help.dragonag...=&p_faqid=23584 instructs yesterday. It went a bit awry, partly because I do believe the way it is explained, it's for WinXP, while I run Win 7, which does things slightly different. (for all of you wondering how I figured this out, here's a hint: •From the Windows desktop, click the Start button, then select Run --- I'm still not that familiar in win7, but this bit is clearly not there.)
But I tried this yesterday anyway: did the commands in a command promt I thought was equal to the run thingy in XP, deleted the things mentioned, and the final command line in what I thought was where I should. Nothing. messed up all.
So I was bummed. Lost all my DLC and stuff

I was going through something similar to hell.
But then, as I awoke this morning, right at the moment I thought about rolling over and having a half an hour more sleep, right on the moment between sleeping and waking -- the moment for ideas -- I had an epifany, a revelation...
I know, I know, for all you hard-core gamers out there, this is elemetary, but I'm not one of you: I know how to run my PC and keep things running, so the revelation might not be as huge as you might think, but it was "The things I deleted, they should be in the trash can, right? Why don't I try to put them back?"
It worked, but because of all the things I had done, every DLC was now Not Authorized.
So I retraced what I did yesterday, tried to see where I could have gone wrong, and then it hit me: why don't I figure out where I should have entered "net stop DAUpdaterSvc" and "net start DAUpdaterSvc".
In Win 7 you don't have the Run thing in Start menu. What it does have, in the Accesories folder is the Command prompt. The mistake I made yesterday was 1st. Not running it under Adminstrator rights, and 2nd. Not navigating to the bin_ship folder under the Dragon Age folder. (While I don't know for sure if the 2nd step is necesary, it seemed to be: the "net stop DAUpdaterSvc" didn't seem to provoke any response in the default folder the command prompt starts -- in my case: .../Win32)
If you're still with me, just a bit more ranting from my part and it will all become clear

I did "net stop DAUpdaterSvc" after I old-school DOS navigated my way to the bin_ship folder and to my surprise, I got the reply it wasn't even running... Odd, but it wasn't.
While I'm no computer expert, I am, however a big gambler -- my intuition has a tendancy to be right more often than it's not, so Instead of deleting all the **** once again, I skipped straight to the "net start DAUpdaterSvc" with the promt in the bin_ship folder...
.. and it worked! I was authorized once more!
But that's not all: the thing that was stuck at 0%in the DLC manager yesterday -- Return to Ostagar, the thing that was no longer in the Downloading section, the thing I had thought lost for good, to be repurchased if the Gods were willing to let the DL in DLC get through one day, was... Downloading!!!
So for all of you who skipped my rantings and thus missed the good parts: try "net start DAUpdaterSvc" before doing anything else: It worked miracles for me... And that's saying something coming from an atheist
Modifié par Raephen, 09 juin 2010 - 08:02 .