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Mosessupposes

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 03:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Abbynormal, I guess you will be getting plenty of help here. I will bow out so as not to cause information overload.

Draheid

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 03:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mosessupposes: I'm sorry, I did not mean to run you off. Abby just sounded a little frantic and I figured the information would be helpful. Please continue.

Twiggyish

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 03:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Abby, do you run a virus scanner? If not, it's possible those files came from an email.

Abbynormal

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 03:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Twiggy, yes I do Norton.

Ok some of the scroll things are addremove, logging, tbmgr and context.

Some of the gear things are comutil.dll and csutil.dll. When I did a property search they are all from Comet Systems and say they are an application extension.

Crossfire

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 03:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Did this session get taken to chat or something?

I hope she did not reboot, and run into problems.

Abbynormal

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 03:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, also it won't let me delete anything. For instance the irfanview icons, it will ask if I am sure I want to delete and I click yes it is still there.

Crossfire

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 03:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Of course, just after I post... :)

Abbynormal

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 03:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
also in properties the archive button is checked where it says attributes. I don't know if any of this is relevant, just giving you info.

Maris

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 03:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I know nothing about computers but doesnt your computer have a feature where you can go to reset it to a certain period of time, ie yesterday and it restores all your setting to that period in time??? Mine has that feature and believe me it has saved my life a time or two.

Draheid

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maris It depends on the version of Windows you use. Earlier versions of window didn't include a roll-back feature but you could add one to it with additional software. Windows/XP has roll-back built in, as long as it is enabled.

Abbynormal

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maris, I seriously would not have a clue about that. When I say I am computer illiterate, I am not just sh*tting ya, ya know? :) I would love a button like that, but I'm not touching anything until someone tells me to.

Maris

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Like I said Dra, I know nothing about computers but thought I would throw in my two cents on this in case Abby has it and doesnt realize it. I cant tell you how many times I have "cleaned up" my computer only to go HOLY CRAP ten minutes later and go to my restore feature.

Bigd

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My son just bought a new game and he cannot play it on our PC because it says we need at least 12 MB of available video memory, we only have 8.

So he tried it on the laptop and it won't run there due to a missing dll file - dinput8.dll, we tried downloading the file and have not been able to get it to find it. Any suggestions?

Twiggyish

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Abby, what version of Windows do you have?

Twiggyish

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
DigD, go to the website of the game. They usually have a support area with FAQ's and other solutions. Plus, you can email their tech support.

Abbynormal

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
98 Twiggy.

Crossfire

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
BigD, dinput8.dll is part of directx version 8.

You can get directx from the microsoft website.

AbbyNormal: Still thinking.

Twiggyish

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Did you go to the control panel and try the add/remove for comet cursor?

Twiggyish

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Cross..it's easier to check the website first for the game company. Sometimes, they have the drivers to be downloaded..also patches. (IMHO)

Abbynormal

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Twiggy, I have not tried that. Are you telling me I should go do that now? lol I'm not doing anything til I'm told!! :)

Twiggyish

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It looks like Comet cursor is installed and the files are on your desktop..somehow. That's just a guess.

Crossfire

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It is if you don't know what the problem is, but I know what the problem is. The computer either does not have directx installed, or has an older version.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.asp

Twiggyish

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Abby, it will not hurt to try uninstalling that way. However, Comet is a known problem with uninstalling..amongst other things. So, it may not work from the control panel.

Crossfire

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am thinking that I should also mention that some game CD's have directx on them to save the download.

I do recommend looking for patches as Twiggyish mentioned. Almost all games have them.

Abbynormal

Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 04:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Twiggy, well I did that but nothing changed except Comet does not show up in the programs now. But it does not show up in the recycle bin either.