Posted By: Antoinetta
Technical Mouse-Click by Mouse-Click Walk-thrus - 05/07/13 06:28 AM
After following the advice on the Windows 7 thread, I was able to successfully install and play the first two Draculas, and Messenger.
However, when I attempted to install Mummy Tomb of the Pharaoh, I was not so lucky. Going to the same file on the disk that worked for the other games, I elicited a window that contained links to various file repair sites.
I went to one of these called REGSERVO, and it did a scan and came up with something approaching 2000 errors. (This I don't understand because the weekly file scan my machine does indicates I have zero errors.)
Anyway, when I clicked on the "Fix Errors" button, instead of fixing anything, I got a window asking me to register. I did this. I then got a window asking me to subscribe to some kind of updates for $10.00 Since the site was billed as free, I didn't think I needed to do this, but I found no way to get back to the page with the "Fix Errors" button or otherwise commence this activity.
Being at a dead end, I gave up, deciding to come here to Gameboomers, to look for advice. As soon as I returned to my desktop, I noticed that REGSERVO had placed an ikon there. When I went on-line to come here, I found that my Google homepage had been replaced by the Ask homepage. This probably has no practical effect, but totally unanticipated stuff like this seems to be the norm whenever I try to download stuff or work with "techie" things on the machine. Often I have downloaded things only to have them vanish somewhere in the bowels of my machine. I am told at the end that the download has been successful, the window disappears and I am at my desktop, but nothing has changed, and I have no way to activate whatever it was I downloaded (This is a primary reason I won't buy games that are only available by download; no disk, no game), and on two occasions I have done some serious damage to my machine.
So what I am asking is there anyplace I can get detailed Mouse-click by Mouse-click walk-thrus for these kind of issues? The fatal problems I have with virtually all instructions is that they tell me WHAT I need to do, but they don't tell me HOW to do it.
Antoinetta
However, when I attempted to install Mummy Tomb of the Pharaoh, I was not so lucky. Going to the same file on the disk that worked for the other games, I elicited a window that contained links to various file repair sites.
I went to one of these called REGSERVO, and it did a scan and came up with something approaching 2000 errors. (This I don't understand because the weekly file scan my machine does indicates I have zero errors.)
Anyway, when I clicked on the "Fix Errors" button, instead of fixing anything, I got a window asking me to register. I did this. I then got a window asking me to subscribe to some kind of updates for $10.00 Since the site was billed as free, I didn't think I needed to do this, but I found no way to get back to the page with the "Fix Errors" button or otherwise commence this activity.
Being at a dead end, I gave up, deciding to come here to Gameboomers, to look for advice. As soon as I returned to my desktop, I noticed that REGSERVO had placed an ikon there. When I went on-line to come here, I found that my Google homepage had been replaced by the Ask homepage. This probably has no practical effect, but totally unanticipated stuff like this seems to be the norm whenever I try to download stuff or work with "techie" things on the machine. Often I have downloaded things only to have them vanish somewhere in the bowels of my machine. I am told at the end that the download has been successful, the window disappears and I am at my desktop, but nothing has changed, and I have no way to activate whatever it was I downloaded (This is a primary reason I won't buy games that are only available by download; no disk, no game), and on two occasions I have done some serious damage to my machine.
So what I am asking is there anyplace I can get detailed Mouse-click by Mouse-click walk-thrus for these kind of issues? The fatal problems I have with virtually all instructions is that they tell me WHAT I need to do, but they don't tell me HOW to do it.
Antoinetta