Re: Old game won't install...WHY?!?!
- From: "Jimmy S." <nosp@xxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:09:53 -0500
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
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_________________________________________________________
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.
||
|| --
|| 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
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
|||| RedRavenDragoon Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| 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?
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