#3D pinball-"Space Cadet"

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Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
 
Hi David,

Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...

To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
(or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.

Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:

1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf

2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7

3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.

4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.


--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________



David Wrote:
=================
| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
 
Hi Jimmy!
Still no luck- Ran the steps you outlined. I can't access "Add/Remove
windows Components /-Message comes up "Unable to open information file
pinball.inf. Specific error code is 0x2 2088999592. Any other thoughts?
Thanks!
David
 
Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few seconds
later. David
 
Hi David,

Since that problem just started happening recently, try a System Restore.

How to use Windows XP System Restore:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gethelp/systemrestore.asp

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________


David Wrote:
=================
| Hi Jimmy!
| Still no luck- Ran the steps you outlined. I can't access "Add/Remove
| windows Components /-Message comes up "Unable to open information file
| pinball.inf. Specific error code is 0x2 2088999592. Any other thoughts?
| Thanks!
| David
|
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi David,
||
|| Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
||
|| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||
|| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||
|| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||
|| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||
|| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||
|| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
||
|| David Wrote:
|| =================
||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
 
Hi David,

You shouldn't be manually deleting any of the Windows folders.
Definately not a recommended procedure for any situation. :-)

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

David Wrote:
=================
| Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few seconds
| later. David
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi David,
||
|| Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
||
|| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||
|| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||
|| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||
|| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||
|| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||
|| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
||
|| David Wrote:
|| =================
||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
 
I needee to delete several folders so the printer software would load
properly. My PC had two "users" and an owner. I found numerous duplicate
files and folders. This pinball problem may have been there for a while.
Unknown exactly when it started.

Jimmy S. said:
Hi David,

You shouldn't be manually deleting any of the Windows folders.
Definately not a recommended procedure for any situation. :-)

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

David Wrote:
=================
| Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few seconds
| later. David
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi David,
||
|| Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
||
|| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||
|| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||
|| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||
|| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||
|| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||
|| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
||
|| David Wrote:
|| =================
||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
Click to expand...
 
I do have the OS discs in addtionion to the os program in the PC. I did try
system restore as far back as possible, but no luck. I've been looking at the
OS discs to find the files I need.
 
Hi David,

Search the OS Disks (include compressed files and folders)
for the missing files: wavemix.* and pinall. * and extract them
to your Pinball directory.

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

David Wrote:
=================
| I do have the OS discs in addtionion to the os program in the PC. I did try
| system restore as far back as possible, but no luck. I've been looking at the
| OS discs to find the files I need.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi David,
||
|| You shouldn't be manually deleting any of the Windows folders.
|| Definately not a recommended procedure for any situation. :-)
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| David Wrote:
|| =================
||| Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few seconds
||| later. David
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi David,
||||
|||| Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
||||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||
|||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||
|||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||
|||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||
|||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||
|||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
||||
|||| David Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
||||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
||||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
 
Hi David,

Since you deleted several folder, it's possible that those folders contain
the files which are causing your two issues (pinball not installed, and the
error you get when you try to open the Add-Remove Programs applet.
See if restoring those folders you deleted helps resolve those issues.

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

David Wrote:
=================
| I needee to delete several folders so the printer software would load
| properly. My PC had two "users" and an owner. I found numerous duplicate
| files and folders. This pinball problem may have been there for a while.
| Unknown exactly when it started.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi David,
||
|| You shouldn't be manually deleting any of the Windows folders.
|| Definately not a recommended procedure for any situation. :-)
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| David Wrote:
|| =================
||| Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few seconds
||| later. David
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi David,
||||
|||| Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
||||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||
|||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||
|||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||
|||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||
|||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||
|||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
||||
|||| David Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
||||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
||||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
 
I've got the necessary files, I think. Got them fromanother xp PC. The game
is working fine, but how do I get the Windows XP setup to recgonize the
pinball.inf file? That seems to be the only problem. In Add and remove
programs, I click on the Add/Remove Windows compenets icon. It can' open the
pinball.inf file. Any thoughts?

Jimmy S. said:
Hi David,

Search the OS Disks (include compressed files and folders)
for the missing files: wavemix.* and pinall. * and extract them
to your Pinball directory.

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
_________________________________________________________

David Wrote:
=================
| I do have the OS discs in addtionion to the os program in the PC. I did try
| system restore as far back as possible, but no luck. I've been looking at the
| OS discs to find the files I need.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi David,
||
|| You shouldn't be manually deleting any of the Windows folders.
|| Definately not a recommended procedure for any situation. :-)
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| David Wrote:
|| =================
||| Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few seconds
||| later. David
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi David,
||||
|||| Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
||||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||
|||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||
|||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||
|||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||
|||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||
|||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
||||
|||| David Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
||||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
||||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
Click to expand...
 
You don't do anything with that file. Right-click the Desktop on an empty
space, select New then Shortcut. Now Browse to the C:\Program Files\Windows
NT\Pinball folder and select the pinball.exe file as the source. This will
create a direct link to the Pinball file, and you can rename it to anything
you'd like on the Desktop.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -


David said:
I've got the necessary files, I think. Got them fromanother xp PC. The
game
is working fine, but how do I get the Windows XP setup to recgonize the
pinball.inf file? That seems to be the only problem. In Add and remove
programs, I click on the Add/Remove Windows compenets icon. It can' open
the
pinball.inf file. Any thoughts?

Jimmy S. said:
Hi David,

Search the OS Disks (include compressed files and folders)
for the missing files: wavemix.* and pinall. * and extract them
to your Pinball directory.

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
rights.
_________________________________________________________

David Wrote:
=================
| I do have the OS discs in addtionion to the os program in the PC. I did
try
| system restore as far back as possible, but no luck. I've been looking
at the
| OS discs to find the files I need.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi David,
||
|| You shouldn't be manually deleting any of the Windows folders.
|| Definately not a recommended procedure for any situation. :-)
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| David Wrote:
|| =================
||| Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few
seconds
||| later. David
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi David,
||||
|||| Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
||||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] /
then check
|||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to
finish.
||||
|||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these
steps first:
||||
|||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box
and press [ENTER]:
|||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||
|||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads:
Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads:
Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||
|||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to
the file.
||||
|||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and
follow the
|||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now
that it's on the list.
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
||||
|||| David Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow.
Now I get
||||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be
in the
||||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
That gives me a link to the game, sure. But my problem is accessing the
Windows components in the "Add/Remove" programs function. (Windows set up) I
click on Add/Remove Windows components and the meesage reads: Unable to open
pinball.inf. Can't access the Windows components after that. The pinball.inf
file is there. Why doesn't my PC see it? I've tried installing the .inf
several times, thinking the PC would pick it up, but no luck.

Chris H. said:
You don't do anything with that file. Right-click the Desktop on an empty
space, select New then Shortcut. Now Browse to the C:\Program Files\Windows
NT\Pinball folder and select the pinball.exe file as the source. This will
create a direct link to the Pinball file, and you can rename it to anything
you'd like on the Desktop.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -


David said:
I've got the necessary files, I think. Got them fromanother xp PC. The
game
is working fine, but how do I get the Windows XP setup to recgonize the
pinball.inf file? That seems to be the only problem. In Add and remove
programs, I click on the Add/Remove Windows compenets icon. It can' open
the
pinball.inf file. Any thoughts?

Jimmy S. said:
Hi David,

Search the OS Disks (include compressed files and folders)
for the missing files: wavemix.* and pinall. * and extract them
to your Pinball directory.

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
rights.
_________________________________________________________

David Wrote:
=================
| I do have the OS discs in addtionion to the os program in the PC. I did
try
| system restore as far back as possible, but no luck. I've been looking
at the
| OS discs to find the files I need.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi David,
||
|| You shouldn't be manually deleting any of the Windows folders.
|| Definately not a recommended procedure for any situation. :-)
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| David Wrote:
|| =================
||| Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few
seconds
||| later. David
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi David,
||||
|||| Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
||||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] /
then check
|||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to
finish.
||||
|||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these
steps first:
||||
|||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box
and press [ENTER]:
|||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||
|||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads:
Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads:
Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||
|||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to
the file.
||||
|||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and
follow the
|||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now
that it's on the list.
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
||||
|||| David Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow.
Now I get
||||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be
in the
||||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
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Pinball has never been included in the Games section there, only Freecell,
Hearts, Internet Games, Minesweeper, Solitaire and Spider Solitaire. It has
always been a separate entity, standing by itself.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -


David said:
That gives me a link to the game, sure. But my problem is accessing the
Windows components in the "Add/Remove" programs function. (Windows set up)
I
click on Add/Remove Windows components and the meesage reads: Unable to
open
pinball.inf. Can't access the Windows components after that. The
pinball.inf
file is there. Why doesn't my PC see it? I've tried installing the .inf
several times, thinking the PC would pick it up, but no luck.

Chris H. said:
You don't do anything with that file. Right-click the Desktop on an
empty
space, select New then Shortcut. Now Browse to the C:\Program
Files\Windows
NT\Pinball folder and select the pinball.exe file as the source. This
will
create a direct link to the Pinball file, and you can rename it to
anything
you'd like on the Desktop.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -


David said:
I've got the necessary files, I think. Got them fromanother xp PC. The
game
is working fine, but how do I get the Windows XP setup to recgonize the
pinball.inf file? That seems to be the only problem. In Add and remove
programs, I click on the Add/Remove Windows compenets icon. It can'
open
the
pinball.inf file. Any thoughts?

:

Hi David,

Search the OS Disks (include compressed files and folders)
for the missing files: wavemix.* and pinall. * and extract them
to your Pinball directory.

--
Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
rights.
_________________________________________________________

David Wrote:
=================
| I do have the OS discs in addtionion to the os program in the PC. I
did
try
| system restore as far back as possible, but no luck. I've been
looking
at the
| OS discs to find the files I need.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi David,
||
|| You shouldn't be manually deleting any of the Windows folders.
|| Definately not a recommended procedure for any situation. :-)
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site: www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| David Wrote:
|| =================
||| Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a
few
seconds
||| later. David
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi David,
||||
|||| Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
||||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] /
then check
|||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to
finish.
||||
|||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use
these
steps first:
||||
|||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN
box
and press [ENTER]:
|||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||
|||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads:
Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads:
Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||
|||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made
to
the file.
||||
|||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs
and
follow the
|||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball
now
that it's on the list.
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Cheers,
*Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer
any
rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
||||
|||| David Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game
somehow.
Now I get
||||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to
be
in the
||||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
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