Wislu Plethora wrote:
If you're going to go this route (which I'm not to sure

will work), you

could expand the DL_ files from your CD.

Directions for how to Expand a file can be found in

this article:

Description and Explanation of a Cabinet File
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-

us;310435&Product=winxp

Sharon, I have done what you recommended earlier.....
I tried the Add/Remove route, and when it asks where the
files are, I insert the CD and tell it i386 just as
you did, and it doesn't find them. I suspect it's because
the XP Installation CD I borrowed has them as .dl_ files
and not .dll .... I don't understand why this should be.

So the two routes I have are to have the kind soul e-mail

me

all of the files that are needed (of which I don't even

have

a list), or convert the .dl_ files one at a time when they
are asked for, to .dll files, and put them somewhere,

where

they can be found.

They are not on my OEM CD because that contains only a

GHOST

image of what they supplied initially, and of course that

included

no FAX stuff.

Most people aren't this persistent. Most people just give

up in

disgust, as I did last year. One thing that isn't clear

to me is why

Microsoft isn't willing to make the files available for

download,

and another is why the 3 XP installation Cds all

have .dl_ files

and yet yours appears to have .dll files.//Bill L.//
.


Billy, Billy, Billy. You are really deserving of credit
for resourcefulness in finding things to whine about. If
you had read Sharon's response (or had someone with a
brain read it to you) you would understand why those files
have a .dl_ extension. THEY'RE COMPRESSED. Sharon told
you how to go about learning how to decompress them.
Just out of curiousity, have you tried pointing the install
routine to the i386 folder on you hard drive?
Please go soak your head. Your 'assistance' is not only
not needed....it is useless. But you knew that.

--
William B. Lurie