Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Hi David,

Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...

To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
(or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.

Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:

1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf

2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7

3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.

4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.


--
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.
_________________________________________________________



David Wrote:
=================
| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Hi Jimmy!
Still no luck- Ran the steps you outlined. I can't access "Add/Remove
windows Components /-Message comes up "Unable to open information file
pinball.inf. Specific error code is 0x2 2088999592. Any other thoughts?
Thanks!
David


"Jimmy S." wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
>
> To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
> Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
> Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
> (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
>
> Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
>
> 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
> notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
>
> 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
> and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
>
> 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
>
> 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
> instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
>
>
> --
> 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.
> _________________________________________________________
>
>
>
> David Wrote:
> =================
> | Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
> | message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
> | pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
>
>
>

Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few seconds
later. David

"Jimmy S." wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
>
> To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
> Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
> Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
> (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
>
> Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
>
> 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
> notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
>
> 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
> and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
>
> 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
>
> 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
> instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
>
>
> --
> 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.
> _________________________________________________________
>
>
>
> David Wrote:
> =================
> | Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
> | message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
> | pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
>
>
>

Hi David,

Since that problem just started happening recently, try a System Restore.

How to use Windows XP System Restore:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...temrestore.asp

--
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.
_________________________________________________________


David Wrote:
=================
| Hi Jimmy!
| Still no luck- Ran the steps you outlined. I can't access "Add/Remove
| windows Components /-Message comes up "Unable to open information file
| pinball.inf. Specific error code is 0x2 2088999592. Any other thoughts?
| Thanks!
| David
|
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi David,
||
|| Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
||
|| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||
|| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||
|| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||
|| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||
|| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||
|| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||
||
|| --
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
||
|| David Wrote:
|| =================
||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Hi David,

You shouldn't be manually deleting any of the Windows folders.
Definately not a recommended procedure for any situation. :-)

--
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.
_________________________________________________________

David Wrote:
=================
| Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few seconds
| later. David
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi David,
||
|| Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
||
|| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||
|| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||
|| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||
|| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||
|| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||
|| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||
||
|| --
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
||
|| David Wrote:
|| =================
||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!

I needee to delete several folders so the printer software would load
properly. My PC had two "users" and an owner. I found numerous duplicate
files and folders. This pinball problem may have been there for a while.
Unknown exactly when it started.

"Jimmy S." wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> You shouldn't be manually deleting any of the Windows folders.
> Definately not a recommended procedure for any situation. :-)
>
> --
> 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.
> _________________________________________________________
>
> David Wrote:
> =================
> | Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few seconds
> | later. David
> |
> | "Jimmy S." wrote:
> |
> || Hi David,
> ||
> || Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
> ||
> || To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
> || Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
> || Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
> || (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
> ||
> || Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
> ||
> || 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
> || notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
> ||
> || 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
> || and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
> ||
> || 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
> ||
> || 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
> || instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
> ||
> ||
> || --
> || 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.
> || _________________________________________________________
> ||
> ||
> ||
> || David Wrote:
> || =================
> ||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
> ||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
> ||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
>
>
>

I do have the OS discs in addtionion to the os program in the PC. I did try
system restore as far back as possible, but no luck. I've been looking at the
OS discs to find the files I need.

"Jimmy S." wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> You shouldn't be manually deleting any of the Windows folders.
> Definately not a recommended procedure for any situation. :-)
>
> --
> 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.
> _________________________________________________________
>
> David Wrote:
> =================
> | Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few seconds
> | later. David
> |
> | "Jimmy S." wrote:
> |
> || Hi David,
> ||
> || Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
> ||
> || To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
> || Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
> || Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
> || (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
> ||
> || Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
> ||
> || 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
> || notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
> ||
> || 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
> || and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
> ||
> || 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
> ||
> || 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
> || instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
> ||
> ||
> || --
> || 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.
> || _________________________________________________________
> ||
> ||
> ||
> || David Wrote:
> || =================
> ||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
> ||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
> ||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!
>
>
>

Hi David,

Search the OS Disks (include compressed files and folders)
for the missing files: wavemix.* and pinall. * and extract them
to your Pinball directory.

--
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.
_________________________________________________________

David Wrote:
=================
| I do have the OS discs in addtionion to the os program in the PC. I did try
| system restore as far back as possible, but no luck. I've been looking at the
| OS discs to find the files I need.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi David,
||
|| You shouldn't be manually deleting any of the Windows folders.
|| Definately not a recommended procedure for any situation. :-)
||
|| --
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| David Wrote:
|| =================
||| Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few seconds
||| later. David
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi David,
||||
|||| Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
||||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||
|||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||
|||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||
|||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||
|||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||
|||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
||||
|||| David Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
||||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
||||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Hi David,

Since you deleted several folder, it's possible that those folders contain
the files which are causing your two issues (pinball not installed, and the
error you get when you try to open the Add-Remove Programs applet.
See if restoring those folders you deleted helps resolve those issues.

--
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.
_________________________________________________________

David Wrote:
=================
| I needee to delete several folders so the printer software would load
| properly. My PC had two "users" and an owner. I found numerous duplicate
| files and folders. This pinball problem may have been there for a while.
| Unknown exactly when it started.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi David,
||
|| You shouldn't be manually deleting any of the Windows folders.
|| Definately not a recommended procedure for any situation. :-)
||
|| --
|| 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.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| David Wrote:
|| =================
||| Also, when I delete out of the Windows NT folder, it comes back a few seconds
||| later. David
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi David,
||||
|||| Sounds like you're going to need to reinstall Pinball...
||||
|||| To add/remove Windows XP Games: Click START / Control Panel /
|||| Add or Remove Programs / Add Remove Windows Components /
|||| Accessories and Utilities / [Details...] / Games / [Details...] / then check
|||| (or uncheck and then recheck the game) / Click [OK] 3 times to finish.
||||
|||| Pinball is not on that list by default. You may need to use these steps first:
||||
|||| 1. Choose Start / Run / Copy+Paste the next line into the RUN box and press [ENTER]:
|||| notepad %SystemRoot%\Inf\Sysoc.inf
||||
|||| 2. Scroll down to the line that reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,HIDE,7
|||| and delete the word HIDE from the line so it now reads: Pinball=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,pinball.inf,,7
||||
|||| 3. Click File / Exit and choose YES to save the changes you made to the file.
||||
|||| 4. Click Start / Settings / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs and follow the
|||| instructions posted in the first paragraph to reinstall Pinball now that it's on the list.
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| 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.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
||||
|||| David Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Greetings! Having trouble with 3D pinball. "Lost" the game somehow. Now I get
||||| message that reads: wavemix.inf mssing and pinall. inf needs to be in the
||||| pinball directory. Any thoughts? Thanks!