I fixed my problem using AVG Free, added the GOG directory to the exceptions list and it was good to go. No problems since. But then you said you don't have anti virus installed so it might be a different problem all together...
Hey, I left it on overnight and it finally activated, it was at least 3.5 hours as I kept checking on it, works perfectly, I didn't even have to turn off the intro. I guess I was just impatient but my laptop which 11 years old now did it in 5 minutes. Weird. Thanks so much, can't wait to play.
Good stuff. It's weird that the operation varies so wildly from system to system. I mean, the front end's basically just extracting compressed files and moving/copying them around. It's not computing complex algorithms for space travel or anything.