Susi It sounds as if somehow you reran the installer (perhaps thinking it was the program itself) and in the process of cancelling it, inadvertently did a partial uninstall or partial reinstall. I may be wrong.
In any case, here's what I suggest -- basically remove the old and reinstall from scratch: 1. See if you can find "Control Panel" from the Flying Windos "Start Menu". It may be plainly visible, or you may have to navigate the menu via "Settings" or "All Progams". 2. Once in the "Control Panel", look for an item called "Add or Remove Programs" -- double-click. 3. After a few moments it will present a list of all the programs on your machine. Scroll down till you see Quackle. (If you don't see Quackle, go to step 6) 4. Select Quackle. Click the "Remove" button. It will ask if you're sure, and then remove Quackle. 5. If more than one Quackle showed up on the list, repeat step 4. 6. Close the "Add and Remove Programs" window and the "Control Panel" 7. Look on your desktop for any and all items with Quackle in the name. Delete them (move to recycle bin). 8. Go to Quackle.org and re-download the program. 9. Reinstall it. When you double-click on the installer (probably on your desktop), carefully note its name. It should be something like " quackle-0.94-windows.exe<http://web.mit.edu/jasonkb/www/quackle/downloads/quackle-0.94/quackle-0.94-windows.exe>" or "quackle-0.94-windows(1).exe"<http://web.mit.edu/jasonkb/www/quackle/downloads/quackle-0.94/quackle-0.94-windows.exe> 10. The installer may ask if you want to make the installation to the existing Quackle folder. Say yes. 11. Go back to your desktop. Find the installer again (the name you noted above). Delete it. 12. Go to the Flying Windows "Start" menu and find the Quackle shortcut. See if it works. On 12/21/06, Susi Tiekert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 > Yahoo! Groups Links
