Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 07:07:56 03/20/99
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On March 20, 1999 at 06:41:22, Ted Hogan wrote:
>On March 19, 1999 at 23:45:58, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>AFAIK DLL's don't need to be in the system's path. If I am correct, then
>>extending the path is a bad idea (for system performance reasons).
>
>>My guess is that the DLL is not registered. How does one register a DLL under
>>Win9x? I'm not sure... I use NT, where "regsvr32 MSS32.DLL" would do the trick.
>
>>If, however, the problem _is_ that the dll isn't in the path, then copying the
>>dll to the windows directory (e.g. "cp MSS32.DLL C:\WINDOWS") should do the
>>trick. This is still terribly gross though: there must be a better solution.
>
>I followed your suggestion and copied the dll files to the Windows directory, I
>say file"s" because after I copied mss32.dll to c:\windows there were several
>other dll file problems, so I also copied these, I restarted the computer and
>the computer stated it saw these files and was going to register them and then
>it rebooted. However, now when I click on the CM6000 icon another window pops
>up and says
>
>------
>Smacker error
>
>The Mss32.dll file is incorrectly installed in the Windows directory
>--------
>
>So now what do I do ??
>
>I sent an email to chessmaster 6000, but I doubt they will return it their
>customer service is terrible !
>
>Regards,
I hope that you made a list of each dll that you copied into c:\windows\, and
that no dlls were copied over that already existed with a newer date or time.
<shudder>
I'm not sure what is wrong. I would suggest (but with a disclaimer of any
responsibility, and without any expressed or implied warranty, et cetera):
1. uninstall CM6000
2. remove the extra dlls that were added to c:\windows\
3. reboot, and check that your system is working well!
4. go and get whatever the latest patch is from the creators of Chessmaster
5. install the software and the patch (presumably there are instructions for
how the patch should be applied from Chessmaster)
6. give it a run and see :-/
Good luck.
Dave Gomboc
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