Hi John,
Thanks for the info, but .....
I had already done all of that except for the flying windows bit.
The scariest part is, I had 0.94 up and running at one brief point
and then when I clicked on it again, all I got was installation
procedures/clicks/instructions.
Now, at some point I had noticed that 0.94 was not connected to the
Gold Star shortcut icon, so, to clean up my desktop and save myself
some confusion and aggravation, I deleted the Gold Star. Wrong
move. That is when the constant installation processes began in earnest.
So off I went to my recycle bin and put it back. The properties
click only tells me Quackle. No version number.
I do remember the brief point in time when 0.94 WAS up and running, I
had to create the board's premium squares. No can do on this
one. No possibility of saving a game on this one.
Mind you, this appears to be the version that didn't work at all when
I first installed it in March (according to the properties). And a
right click on the computer-and-cd icon only that only installs
Quackle creates another computer-and-cd icon. And since I can't get
to a game via this installation process, I can't right-click to
create a desktop icon (that hopefully will result in an updated Gold Star).
In short, I don't think Quackle likes my machine.
Ron is up and running and happy. He can't get it to behave on my
machine either.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Susi
At 02:54 AM 12/21/2006, you wrote:
Well, you might delete the one that doesn't work,
and use the one that launches version 0.94 to
launch the program.
[basic stuff follows; Windows experts may ignore]
If you aren't sure what a desktop shortcut does,
right-click it and select 'Properties' from the
menu that appears. On the Shortcut tab, you may
see something like this:
Target: "C:\Program Files\Quackle\Quackle.exe"
which would indicate that the shortcut will
launch the program you want.
There's another way to launch the program, too.
If XP works anything like Windows2000, which it
does in some ways and doesn't in others, do this:
Press the "flying Windows" key (next to Alt in the
lower-left area of your keyboard) and select
Programs, Quackle, Quackle 0.94. That's a bit more
cumbersome, but it does save you from the mysteries
of wondering just what a desktop shortcut might be
launching.
Once you have the program running, click Help and
About Quackle to see the version number. V0.94
identifies itself clearly.
John Hart
--- In [email protected], "suuuzzcflrrcom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Okay, call me an incipient Luddite - but I can't get this puppy to
> work properly.
>
> I have two icons on my XP desktop - one that is the 0.94 release and a
> large Gold Star shortcut that is for an unknown version (one that
> didn't work on my machine at all).
>
> What do I have to do to fix this and get the two icons compatible,
please?
>
> Much thanks.
>
> Susi
>
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