Makaveli,
thanks for the response. It might be possible to change the directory names. I tried it. There were several minutes of intense disk activity as presumably Flight Simulator updated its indexes, but after that it worked just fine. Unfortunately this might be a problem if the user has...
Alvin,
Yes, but only the second path e.g.
copy c:\fsx\stars.dat "C:\Programs\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\stars.dat"
Best regards,
Chris
Hello all,
I'm the author of a program called AutoStar for Microsoft Flight Simulator. I'm using Visual Basic 5.
A user informed me of a problem. He uses Windows Vista (I use XP). It turned out that my program could not write a file to a location if there were spaces in the path. I had the...
I use the Shell command in Visual Basic 5 to run .exe programs. Today it failed to work. After a little investigation I found that it only worked if there were no spaces in the path, so it could not run programs in Program Files. This was never a problem before. Also, running programs from Start...
Thanks for that. I'm a little shocked to hear that. I wonder, could you be more specific as to how they might turn down the performance? If they turned down the clock speed but still advertised it as 3.2 Ghz then they would probably be breaking the Trades Description Act (in the UK). I'm sure...
When I did some comparisons I was shocked to find that on my current computer some of my VB programs run far slower than on my old computer. The current computer (a Dell) is considerably faster in theory and yet some VB programs run only at a third of the speed, which is very surprising.
I...
Thanks for the suggestions.
I've tried disassociating with winzip and I even removed winzip, except for two dll files I couldn't delete.
I don't think the problem is with winzip. The problem is with Windows. Windows XP has this zip compression feature built-in. What I really, really...
Monster,
thanks for the suggestion. Winzip didn't appear in Windows uninstall. I deleted all the Winzip files, except for two .dll files that I couldn't delete and rebooted Windows. Still the same basic problem. I think maybe Windows XP has an unzip function built in and doesn't need Winzip to...
Hello all,
I've just received a new PC (Windows XP Home SP2) and there's a really annoying problem.
After installing a game I found that its directories are working as Zip archives. That is, if in Windows Explorer I click on a zip file, Windows automatically extracts and displays the files...
pinkfloyd,
I've run Checkdisk and it does fix some files. I'm not familiar with system repair and the Windows help wasn't very helpful.
What I really need is a means of seeing what the Convert error actually was, then I could probably fix the problem.
Best regards,
Chris
Hello all.
I recently bought an (expensive!) music program. I can't install it because it requires an eight gigabyte file to be copied from the DVD, and my drive is FAT32. Windows immediately gives an error message, saying there's insufficient space (there's plenty of space). So my first...