MS Freecell

[Helen Martin]

akk.. they make me into an addict.. and then it stops working..

my company issue Freecell suddenly stopped working this week..
I tried deleting it, rebooting and then reinstalling it from the Cd but
its still broken.. Its actually off the Win98SE disk..

I figured some support file must be broken, perhaps by something new I
installed..

any ideas??

Helen in Canada

 

[Geoffrey Cohen [MS-MVP]]

Are you running Norton Internet Security? If so, try disabling it and see
what happens with FreeCell.

 

[Helen Martin]

Are you running Norton Internet Security? If so, try disabling it and see
what happens with FreeCell.

not running Norton...
any other ideas??

Helen in Canada

 

[Geoffrey Cohen [MS-MVP]]

Do you get an error message? Do you have Office XP installed?

 

[Helen Martin]

Do you get an error message? Do you have Office XP installed?

hello Geoff...
no I don't have office XP..
I'm runing Windows 98 and trying to run the original Freecell that came
on the disk..

I thought maybe a file had become corrupted, so I deleted all the games
(through add/remove software) and then installed them again..

I don't get an error message, the game window comes up, but the hand
never deals.. instead I get the hourglass whenever my mouse pointer is
over the game area.. if I point at the menus, they work, I can deal a
new hand, but I can't play the hand I deal.. as soon as the mouse
pointer moves over the playing area, I get the hourglass again..

I'm wondering if something else I install replaced on of the vb files or
dll files that is vital to the Freecell games.. do you know which
resource files it uses??

confused
Helen in Canada..

ps. I know this is supposed to be a win2000 group but I couldn't find a
group for win98 .. sorry..

 

[Geoffrey Cohen [MS-MVP]]

Sounds like something you have running (probably loading during
startup/bootup) is causing a conflict. With Win98, an easy solution would
be to reboot, then press CTRL+ALT+Delete and End Task everything except
Explorer and Systray. Then retry the game. Presumably, it will work just
fine. Then, it's just a matter of determining which item you End Tasked
that is causing the conflict.

 

[Helen Martin]

Sounds like something you have running (probably loading during
startup/bootup) is causing a conflict. With Win98, an easy solution would
be to reboot, then press CTRL+ALT+Delete and End Task everything except
Explorer and Systray. Then retry the game. Presumably, it will work just
fine. Then, it's just a matter of determining which item you End Tasked
that is causing the conflict.

yeah Geoff!!!
I ended up reconfiguring without two things in my list..
an eventmonitor thing from Real Player, and a component from my logitech
mouse drivers.. I think it was the drivers that were the culprit..

my Freecell now works.. Yeah!!
thanks much

Helen in Canada

 

[Geoffrey Cohen [MS-MVP]]

Helen, I'm glad to hear that. My first guess would be the RealPlayer
eventmonitor.