Author: Brian Kostick
Date: 15:34:05 12/27/00
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On December 27, 2000 at 17:39:09, Tony Schleizer wrote:
>I thought that I should mention to everyone here that I downloaded ChessMentor
>2.0 and had a few problems (just in case someone else decides to do it).
>
>After I downloaded the upgrade to ChessMentor 2.0 and ran it my computer
>proceeded to crash and won't come back up. I am getting an error about a missing
>dll file ("COMCTL32.DLL file cannot start") and the blue screen of death stays
>up and the error msg just keeps repeating. I cannot even reinstall windows off
>of my backup CD b/c my CD-ROM won't spin, so I as far as I can tell, I am
>screwed. My computer is a 200 Mhz pentium MMX w/ 64M of RAM running Win95.
>
>Also, I ran across a problem when I loaded CM onto my wifes new laptop (which
>runs Windows ME). I was able to load the base program just fine, but I could not
>load any supplementary modules. Got a message about a bad function call.
>
>After today, I don't know whether to hate MSFT or ChessMentor or both.
>
>Tony Schleizer
>
>PS: If anyone can tell me how to get my computer running without taking it in, I
>would greatly appreciate it.
Tony, Find a Win98 (or WinXX whatever) computer to sit down at and go to
Control Panel / Add_Remove Programs / and then select the Startup Disk tab. You
will need a 3 1/4" floppy to proceed. You then should be able to boot your
computer and have CD access with this floppy. I know gang, not about chess, but
hopefully will save him a trip to the local computer guru.
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