Hi Jeremy N.,
Great news! Thanks for posting back with the results.
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Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S.
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Jeremy N. Wrote:
=================
| Hi Jimmy S.
|
| FINALLY!!!After all this time of trying to figure it out and getting
| nowhere, I just walked up today, tinkered with it, and it works. I took
| compatability mode off and made it run on just 640x480 screen resolution.
| After all this time it was just one little thing. Thanks for all of your help
| though, I appreciate it.
|
| cheers,
| Jeremy N.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Jeremy N.,
||
|| I'm going to see if I can find someone who has that game to lend
|| me and see if it installs on one of my systems, in the meantime I
|| hope someone with the game might read this and pitch in a bit.
||
|| --
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| Jeremy N. Wrote:
|| =================
||| Hi Jimmy S.
|||
||| I did what you suggested and it still didn't work. I even experimented with
||| the read only for the system folder WINDOWS.0, but all that did was allow me
||| to create another folder with WINDOWS.O (letter) and not 0 (#).
|||
||| Is the uninstaller program part of the whole setup file or is it separate
||| from everything? I've seen a file on the cd labled "UniFish3" but clicking on
||| it doesn't yield anything except a message reading: "Unknown Project:-". Does
||| this file have any relevance?
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi Jeremy N.,
||||
|||| Try creating both a Windows.o (letter) and Windows.0 (number)
|||| folder on C:, and then inside your Windows directory create a
|||| folder o (letter) and a folder 0 (number). This is of course assuming
|||| that the installer isn't trying to read a variable to run the batch install
|||| and is not finding a result and therefore erroring out with a .0 result.
||||
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|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
|||| Jeremy N. Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Hi Jimmy S.
|||||
||||| Still no luck. It still wants to access WINDOWS.0 for some reason. I even
||||| tried creating a new folder on my desktop named Hasbro Interactive and
||||| changed the installation target to that. It almost worked. After clicking on
||||| the program file and specifying what drive the cd was in the screen went
||||| black, like it was about to actually work, then in cut out and I got an error
||||| message reading "GSK Error Trapper", the whole message was a bunch of zeros
||||| after that. Would there be any way to make WINDOWS.0 accessible to the
||||| installer? Any insights would be appreciated.
|||||
||||| sincerely,
||||| Jeremy N.
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi Jeremy N.,
||||||
|||||| I don't know why the installer is trying to access C:\Windows.0
|||||| You might want to create a new folder on your C: drive named
|||||| Windows.0 and see if you can install the game afterwards.
||||||
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|||||| 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.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||
|||||| Jeremy N. Wrote:
|||||| =================
||||||| Hi Jimmy S.
||||||| (fyi I changed my profile to Jeremy N.)
|||||||
||||||| I've downloaded a patch for Roller Coaster Tycoon onto my desktop, which
||||||| can't work until I actually install the program, and I have tried several
||||||| times to do as you suggested. I still get the same error message: "Could not
||||||| install uninstaller program into windows directory C:\WINDOWS.0". I have
||||||| absolutely no idea why the installation shouldn't work. I've tried several
||||||| variations of the compatability mode and still no success. Any more
||||||| suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
|||||||
||||||| sincerely,
||||||| Jeremy N.
|||||||
||||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| Hi RedRavenDragoon,
||||||||
|||||||| Try installing and playing that using 95/98 Compatibility mode.
||||||||
|||||||| To install a program using Windows XP's Compatibility Mode, hold
|||||||| down SHIFT as you insert the game CD, use My Computer to browse
|||||||| to the setup program, and then skip down to step 1 in the list below:
||||||||
|||||||| To run an installed program using Windows XP's Compatibility Mode,
|||||||| first right click the program and "Send To..." / Desktop (create shortcut).
||||||||
|||||||| 1.. Right click on the shortcut to the program.
|||||||| 2.. Click on Properties.
|||||||| 3.. Click on the Compatibility tab.
|||||||| 4.. Click on Run this program in compatibility mode and select one of these:
|||||||| a.. Windows 95
|||||||| b.. Windows 98
|||||||| c.. Windows NT 4
|||||||| d.. Windows 2000
|||||||| 5.. Under Display settings, check mark the mode that you think that is best:
|||||||| a.. Run in 256 colors.
|||||||| b.. Run in 640 X 480 screen resolution.
|||||||| c.. Disable visual themes.
||||||||
|||||||| Click on Apply.Click on Ok.Double click on the program.
||||||||
|||||||| Of course, let's not forget to check for any patches or updates for that game.
|||||||| A good place to find them is:
www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_list.asp?letter=a
||||||||
|||||||| If you'd like to learn more information about compatibility mode, you can click the
|||||||| link in the Compatibility tab that reads "Learn more about program compatibility",
|||||||| or watch this Application Compatibility Power Point Presentation:
||||||||
http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/webcasts/wc112202/WC112202.ppt
||||||||
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|||||||| 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.
|||||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||||
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|||||||| RedRavenDragoon Wrote:
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||||||||| I've tried a million times to install the old and classic Roller Coaster
||||||||| Tycoon but everytime around the end of installation an error message pops up,
||||||||| reading: "Cannot install uninstaller program into Windows.0" After this the
||||||||| installation fails and I have to start over. Sometimes a ping will sound,
||||||||| suggesting something is happening, but it just freezes. How can I get this
||||||||| old and pathetically small game to install?
