Re: Old game won't install...WHY?!?!

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. :-)

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Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
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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.
||
|| --
|| 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.
||||
|||| --
|||| 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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