Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 02:48:00 10/08/99
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On October 08, 1999 at 04:52:03, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >>Most of your problems posted in another post below are valid ones, and the >>things that shits me the most is that it does change drivers and it does not >>give you the option to not install them. It stuffs up some of my other programs, >>which I cannot sacrafice to keep this crappy CM program on my system > >does it try to install a new DirectX? If so it is quite strange, some times I >did try to install older (or not new) versions of DirectX and often I was >getting the message like: "your machine does not need an upgrade of the video >driver". Either this is a Microsoft (yet again) bug in the DirectX procedure, or >there was something strange happening. > >On the other side if it was just a wrong/old driver, reinstalling the new one >does prevent CM7K from working properly? > >In any case I suggest you to do this: >- open the Start-Find panel of Windows9x >- search for all .dll files and look for duplicate names (you should be able to >spot files that are in two locations and with the same name) >- if you find any keep only the most recent one and keep it in the >windows/system folder (neglect duplicates in the sysbackup folder) > >there are also software that do this job for you > >regards >Franz I will try what you suggest, but it installed DirectX 6.1 over ver 7 without my knowing. As for installing it again, NO WAY, lotus organiser and Quicken do not use Direct X, so that was not the cause of my problems for those programs, and they are more important than the DirectX games.
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