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When I have two (or more) instances of VS2010 open and I go to my pending checkins panel and launch comparison on a file, it launches CodeCompare in a different instance of VS2010. Also, sometimes it appears to launch CC in a standalone app window. I would rather just always launch in a new standalone CC app. Is there any way to control this?
Note, I have a /b switch on the difference option because (based on a previous thread) we found that VSS likes to block and CC won't launch at all.

Thanks!

I'm using VSS. I'll try the /b and keep my fingers crossed. Thanks.

As additional information for troubleshooting...
When I choose to show the comparison of a file in VS, I can then explore to c:\users\(username)\appdata\temp and see that the comparison file IS being created by VS (from source control). If I execute essentially the same command that VS is supposed to execute account to the differencing option:

"c:\program files (x86)\devart\CodeCompare\CodeCompare.exe" "c:\users\(username)\appdata\temp\myfile.cs" "c:\users\(username)\documents\myfile.cs"

...it works. It opens the comparison in CodeCompare just fine. So I really don't know what's going on.

I do not run into the error that you mentioned. I do have some new information regarding my original error. I have done a complete reinstall of Win7 (for other reasons) and am not under a group policy of any kind. I have a clean install of VS2010 and then a clean install of CodeCompare (choosing to include VS2010 integration). Since I am not under group policy, I am running VS2010 under elevated priveleges.
CodeCompare works standalone and can be launched from VS2010 | Tools | CodeCompare, but when I go to Pending Checkins and launch comparison of a file or to Solution Explorer and choose right click | Compare, I get the same message as before: "CodeCompare is not responding. Perhaps you are trying to run the environment for the first time after install, in this case wait until the end of the run."
The strange thing is that it has worked since my reinstallation of Windows, VS, and CC, but it's not working now.
Is there anyway you can look up when/why CC would throw this message so we can trace down why this would be affecting me? Does CC have to access my source control system at all? I would guess that it doesn't and that VS handles this.
Thanks.

My corporate policy forces me to keep UAC turned on. If I run VS2010 as an administrator, then I can launch a CodeCompare session (right click file > Compare...) without a problem. If I don't run VS2010 as an administrator, then it doesn't work. When I compare files, VS2010 waits for a couple of minutes and then displays a dialog box indicating that "CodeCompare is not responding. Perhaps you are trying to run the environment for the first time after install, in this case wait until the end of the run."
Choosing Run as Administrator each time I launch VS2010 is not a sustainable option in my opinion, so does anyone have another workaround in mind?
I have tried:
-Setting my VS2010 taskbar item to Run as Administrator each time automatically (for some reason this doesn't work... same error)
-Opening permissions (granting Modify to Everyone) on VS2010 and CodeCompare program folders

Thanks!