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  #16  
Old March 29th 04, 01:01 PM
Morgana.
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Default XP Pro FAX

"William B. Lurie" wrote

...

Thank you, Morgana, I may ask you for copies of
the files it needs.....of which there will be
several, all starting with 'fx' and with .dll
extension. Do you have a website where you could
put files for me to download and install? /wbl/


vw William ...
Sorry .. do not have web site
will be happy to send them
where you wish
if you like ....

Morgana.

Morgana. wrote:


http://www.dynamiclink.nl/frames/dllindex.htm
http://www.donker.ws/nuke/dll1f.php


tried this one but does not have it
http://www.dll-files.com/



I also have the fxsevent.dll file on my pc if you need.
have fax installed ...followed the instructions several months ago
and it worked for me .....


running XP Pro


Morgana.


"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...
Sharon F wrote:
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:45:12 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:
It didn't get installed on this PC. I believe it's
on the CD. How do I install it? Thanks.
Bill Lurie
Control Panel Add/Remove Programs Add/Remove Windows Components.

Place
a check next to Fax Services and click Next. You may be prompted for the
WinXP CD. If you run into problems, direct the wizard to the i386

folder
on the CD.
HOW TO: Enable and Configure the Fax Service in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=306550


Sharon, I tried what you said, as I did last year at Rob's
direction. I just tried it with two different XP CDs.
It prompted, saying it needed file fxsevent.dll and
I browsed to i386 on the CD, and when I hit Enter, it
changed what was in my windows to \f\i386 or almost that,
but it never found the .dll file. Browsing on the CD I
find a zillion files starting ith fx .... and all with extension
.dl_ .....
Incidentally, I don't even have to go to Add/Remove etcetera.....
Just insertying the CD and waiting, its autorun starts it up
and gives me four choices, one of which is to Add Windows
Optional Components. That leads to the same impasse.
You and Rob are reminding me that I'm following the same
steps which didn't get that FAX installed last year. As a
scientist I'm curious as to why I follow the right steps
and get to where the 'uninstalled' .dl_ files are, and the
installer doesn't convert them to .dll files and install them.
I know I can buck it to the Microsoft insider Online Tech
support people, but I like to save that recourse for problems
that really *have* to be solved.
--
William B. Lurie




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  #17  
Old March 29th 04, 03:21 PM
Sharon F
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:04:29 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:

Sharon, I tried what you said, as I did last year at Rob's
direction. I just tried it with two different XP CDs.
It prompted, saying it needed file fxsevent.dll and
I browsed to i386 on the CD, and when I hit Enter, it
changed what was in my windows to \f\i386 or almost that,
but it never found the .dll file. Browsing on the CD I
find a zillion files starting ith fx .... and all with extension
.dl_ .....


I remember when you tried this before. I don't have much hope for you being
able to install this from the eMachine recovery CD. You exhausted just
about every possibility there the last time you tried this.

I was hoping that you would be able to get this installed using the
friend's CD that you got the Recovery Console from. It sounds like that is
a more standard CD.

When I installed this program, I used the wizard from Control Panel. I
prefer that over the wizard from the CD (which I've never used). All I had
to do was insert the XPCD when prompted and, I believe, I had to select the
i386 folder as well. It really was that simple (I didn't have to rummage
around for files).

If I remember correctly I also had to use Printer and Fax folder to
manually install a fax printer. That may or may not get installed by the
Fax applet. If it doesn't appear, the recommended solution is to add it
manually.

Even though the file name is different, the resolution in this article is
the suggested method for working through the problem you're facing:

"Cannot Copy File Fxscfgwz.dll" Error Message When You Try to Install
Windows XP Fax Services
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

PS: If it's any consolation, the MS Fax program is very basic - capable of
sending one page faxes only. After sending a copy of a receipt via Fax, I
uninstalled it.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User
  #18  
Old March 29th 04, 03:21 PM
Sharon F
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Default XP Pro FAX

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 06:25:16 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:

Thank you, Morgana, I may ask you for copies of
the files it needs.....of which there will be
several, all starting with 'fx' and with .dll
extension. Do you have a website where you could
put files for me to download and install? /wbl/

Morgana. wrote:

http://www.dynamiclink.nl/frames/dllindex.htm
http://www.donker.ws/nuke/dll1f.php

tried this one but does not have it
http://www.dll-files.com/


I also have the fxsevend.dll file on my pc if you need.
have fax installed ...followed the instructions several months ago
and it worked for me .....

running XP Pro

Morgana.


"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...

Sharon F wrote:

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:45:12 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:

It didn't get installed on this PC. I believe it's
on the CD. How do I install it? Thanks.
Bill Lurie

Control Panel Add/Remove Programs Add/Remove Windows Components. Place


a

check next to Fax Services and click Next. You may be prompted for the
WinXP CD. If you run into problems, direct the wizard to the i386 folder


on

the CD.
HOW TO: Enable and Configure the Fax Service in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=306550

Sharon, I tried what you said, as I did last year at Rob's
direction. I just tried it with two different XP CDs.
It prompted, saying it needed file fxsevent.dll and
I browsed to i386 on the CD, and when I hit Enter, it
changed what was in my windows to \f\i386 or almost that,
but it never found the .dll file. Browsing on the CD I
find a zillion files starting ith fx .... and all with extension
.dl_ .....
Incidentally, I don't even have to go to Add/Remove etcetera.....
Just insertying the CD and waiting, its autorun starts it up
and gives me four choices, one of which is to Add Windows
Optional Components. That leads to the same impasse.
You and Rob are reminding me that I'm following the same
steps which didn't get that FAX installed last year. As a
scientist I'm curious as to why I follow the right steps
and get to where the 'uninstalled' .dl_ files are, and the
installer doesn't convert them to .dll files and install them.
I know I can buck it to the Microsoft insider Online Tech
support people, but I like to save that recourse for problems
that really *have* to be solved.
--
William B. Lurie





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...&Product=winxp

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User
  #19  
Old March 29th 04, 06:02 PM
William B. Lurie
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Default XP Pro FAX

Sharon F wrote:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 06:25:16 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:


Thank you, Morgana, I may ask you for copies of
the files it needs.....of which there will be
several, all starting with 'fx' and with .dll
extension. Do you have a website where you could
put files for me to download and install? /wbl/

Morgana. wrote:


http://www.dynamiclink.nl/frames/dllindex.htm
http://www.donker.ws/nuke/dll1f.php

tried this one but does not have it
http://www.dll-files.com/


I also have the fxsevend.dll file on my pc if you need.
have fax installed ...followed the instructions several months ago
and it worked for me .....

running XP Pro

Morgana.


"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...


Sharon F wrote:


On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:45:12 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:


It didn't get installed on this PC. I believe it's
on the CD. How do I install it? Thanks.
Bill Lurie

Control Panel Add/Remove Programs Add/Remove Windows Components. Place

a


check next to Fax Services and click Next. You may be prompted for the
WinXP CD. If you run into problems, direct the wizard to the i386 folder

on


the CD.
HOW TO: Enable and Configure the Fax Service in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=306550

Sharon, I tried what you said, as I did last year at Rob's
direction. I just tried it with two different XP CDs.
It prompted, saying it needed file fxsevent.dll and
I browsed to i386 on the CD, and when I hit Enter, it
changed what was in my windows to \f\i386 or almost that,
but it never found the .dll file. Browsing on the CD I
find a zillion files starting ith fx .... and all with extension
.dl_ .....
Incidentally, I don't even have to go to Add/Remove etcetera.....
Just insertying the CD and waiting, its autorun starts it up
and gives me four choices, one of which is to Add Windows
Optional Components. That leads to the same impasse.
You and Rob are reminding me that I'm following the same
steps which didn't get that FAX installed last year. As a
scientist I'm curious as to why I follow the right steps
and get to where the 'uninstalled' .dl_ files are, and the
installer doesn't convert them to .dll files and install them.
I know I can buck it to the Microsoft insider Online Tech
support people, but I like to save that recourse for problems
that really *have* to be solved.
--
William B. Lurie




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...&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.//
  #20  
Old March 29th 04, 06:21 PM
William B. Lurie
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Morgana, there are 19 files starting with 'fx' and
with .dl_ extension. I can't ask you to e-mail me all
19, and who knows what else will be needed after
that hurdle is crossed. It really would be more proper
for the people closer to Microsoft to do it, and I've
been hoping they'd pick up the ball instead of letting
me fumble it.
Bill L.

Morgana. wrote:
"William B. Lurie" wrote

...


Thank you, Morgana, I may ask you for copies of
the files it needs.....of which there will be
several, all starting with 'fx' and with .dll
extension. Do you have a website where you could
put files for me to download and install? /wbl/



vw William ...
Sorry .. do not have web site
will be happy to send them
where you wish
if you like ....

Morgana.


Morgana. wrote:



http://www.dynamiclink.nl/frames/dllindex.htm
http://www.donker.ws/nuke/dll1f.php



tried this one but does not have it
http://www.dll-files.com/




I also have the fxsevent.dll file on my pc if you need.
have fax installed ...followed the instructions several months ago
and it worked for me .....



running XP Pro



Morgana.



"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...

Sharon F wrote:

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:45:12 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:

It didn't get installed on this PC. I believe it's
on the CD. How do I install it? Thanks.
Bill Lurie

Control Panel Add/Remove Programs Add/Remove Windows Components.


Place

a check next to Fax Services and click Next. You may be prompted for the

WinXP CD. If you run into problems, direct the wizard to the i386


folder

on the CD.
HOW TO: Enable and Configure the Fax Service in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=306550



Sharon, I tried what you said, as I did last year at Rob's
direction. I just tried it with two different XP CDs.
It prompted, saying it needed file fxsevent.dll and
I browsed to i386 on the CD, and when I hit Enter, it
changed what was in my windows to \f\i386 or almost that,
but it never found the .dll file. Browsing on the CD I
find a zillion files starting ith fx .... and all with extension
.dl_ .....
Incidentally, I don't even have to go to Add/Remove etcetera.....
Just insertying the CD and waiting, its autorun starts it up
and gives me four choices, one of which is to Add Windows
Optional Components. That leads to the same impasse.
You and Rob are reminding me that I'm following the same
steps which didn't get that FAX installed last year. As a
scientist I'm curious as to why I follow the right steps
and get to where the 'uninstalled' .dl_ files are, and the
installer doesn't convert them to .dll files and install them.
I know I can buck it to the Microsoft insider Online Tech
support people, but I like to save that recourse for problems
that really *have* to be solved.
--
William B. Lurie




  #21  
Old March 29th 04, 07:21 PM
Sharon F
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Default XP Pro FAX

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:53:39 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:

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.


This is normal, Bill. The files on the CD are compressed. The are expanded
when they are installed.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User
  #22  
Old March 29th 04, 07:21 PM
William B. Lurie
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Default XP Pro FAX

Sharon F wrote:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 06:25:16 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:


Thank you, Morgana, I may ask you for copies of
the files it needs.....of which there will be
several, all starting with 'fx' and with .dll
extension. Do you have a website where you could
put files for me to download and install? /wbl/

Morgana. wrote:


http://www.dynamiclink.nl/frames/dllindex.htm
http://www.donker.ws/nuke/dll1f.php

tried this one but does not have it
http://www.dll-files.com/


I also have the fxsevend.dll file on my pc if you need.
have fax installed ...followed the instructions several months ago
and it worked for me .....

running XP Pro

Morgana.


"William B. Lurie" wrote in message
...


Sharon F wrote:


On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:45:12 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:


It didn't get installed on this PC. I believe it's
on the CD. How do I install it? Thanks.
Bill Lurie

Control Panel Add/Remove Programs Add/Remove Windows Components. Place

a


check next to Fax Services and click Next. You may be prompted for the
WinXP CD. If you run into problems, direct the wizard to the i386 folder

on


the CD.
HOW TO: Enable and Configure the Fax Service in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=306550

Sharon, I tried what you said, as I did last year at Rob's
direction. I just tried it with two different XP CDs.
It prompted, saying it needed file fxsevent.dll and
I browsed to i386 on the CD, and when I hit Enter, it
changed what was in my windows to \f\i386 or almost that,
but it never found the .dll file. Browsing on the CD I
find a zillion files starting ith fx .... and all with extension
.dl_ .....
Incidentally, I don't even have to go to Add/Remove etcetera.....
Just insertying the CD and waiting, its autorun starts it up
and gives me four choices, one of which is to Add Windows
Optional Components. That leads to the same impasse.
You and Rob are reminding me that I'm following the same
steps which didn't get that FAX installed last year. As a
scientist I'm curious as to why I follow the right steps
and get to where the 'uninstalled' .dl_ files are, and the
installer doesn't convert them to .dll files and install them.
I know I can buck it to the Microsoft insider Online Tech
support people, but I like to save that recourse for problems
that really *have* to be solved.
--
William B. Lurie




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...&Product=winxp

Dear Sharon:
I did some more searching, and found some interesting files.
On my hard drive, in C:\windows\system32\dllcache I found all, or
maybe almost all, of the fxszzzzz.dll files that the FX Install
would require. I'd like to lead the Add/RemoveWindows programs
Fax install to th file it says it needs, and wants me to give it
the Installation CD so that it can install them. Instead, I
tried to give it the file it asked for, from w:\Windows\system32\
dll cache, but it insists it wants the file from the CD. Well, it's
a CATCH22, because on the CD, the files are unexpanded. And when I
offer it an expanded file, it just ignores me and puts i386 in the
location window. Tell me, are we making progress? Can you tell me
how to move the file it wants to where it will accept it?
Bill L.
  #23  
Old March 29th 04, 07:21 PM
Wislu Plethora
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Default XP Pro FAX




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?
  #24  
Old March 29th 04, 08:01 PM
Sharon F
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Default XP Pro FAX

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:53:39 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:

why the 3 XP installation Cds all have .dl_ files
and yet yours appears to have .dll files.


My CD is a retail XP CD. The files in the i386 folder are shown as .dl_
files. This compressed form is normal and expected. The files get expanded
during installation. The compressed files can be manually expanded if
necessary but this is usually done on a file by file basis for repairs.

Here's the URL again for the article that explains how to manually expand
files if you missed it before.

Description and Explanation of a Cabinet File
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

As for your mystery CD....
An OEM CD that restores an image is not installing anything when you use
it. It's not even an OEM restore CD that uses a customized install. It is
simply a copy of a master hard drive (very much the same as the one you
created last week with Drive Image). Then eMachines plops that image onto
the hard drives of systems built with the same configuration as the machine
with the "master" hard drive.

Apparently they have added an i386 folder to the CD since you can see that
when you examine the CD. This folder is normally supplied by the OEMs and
even copied to the hard drive to add/remove components and to do small
touchup repairs -- like reinstalling Paint if it gets broken.

I really don't understand why the MS Fax files are lacking on the eMachine
CD either. I'm not familiar with the options given to the OEMs and do not
have access to that information.

I can see them using a script or program that adds the i386 folder to their
image. But I don't understand how they could end up with an i386 folder
that does not included the needed items for the fax component. Fax is an
optional component - one of the few things that XP setup does not install
by default. It's part of the actual XP setup. It's not even stuck in a
separate folder like the "NT Backup/WinXP Home" situation.

There is a missing link somewhere between the OEM setup that eMachine uses
to create the master images for their computers and the restore CD that
they deliver to their customers. Unfortunately, I have no idea what it is.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User
  #25  
Old March 29th 04, 09:41 PM
Sharon F
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Default XP Pro FAX

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:13:04 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:

Instead, I
tried to give it the file it asked for, from w:\Windows\system32\
dll cache, but it insists it wants the file from the CD. Well, it's
a CATCH22, because on the CD, the files are unexpanded. And when I
offer it an expanded file, it just ignores me and puts i386 in the
location window. Tell me, are we making progress? Can you tell me
how to move the file it wants to where it will accept it?


Bill, the problem isn't that the files are compressed or not compressed.
The installation of the component will expand the necessary files.

The one article that I posted a link to suggested copying the i386 folder
to the hard drive. Have you tried that yet? Would suggest trying it with
your i386 folder from eMachines. If that fails, try it again with the i386
from the borrowed CD.

Here's the reference to the article again:
"Cannot Copy File Fxscfgwz.dll" Error Message When You Try to Install
Windows XP Fax Services
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User
  #26  
Old March 29th 04, 10:01 PM
William B. Lurie
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Default XP Pro FAX

Sharon F wrote:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:13:04 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:


Instead, I
tried to give it the file it asked for, from w:\Windows\system32\
dll cache, but it insists it wants the file from the CD. Well, it's
a CATCH22, because on the CD, the files are unexpanded. And when I
offer it an expanded file, it just ignores me and puts i386 in the
location window. Tell me, are we making progress? Can you tell me
how to move the file it wants to where it will accept it?



Bill, the problem isn't that the files are compressed or not compressed.
The installation of the component will expand the necessary files.

The one article that I posted a link to suggested copying the i386 folder
to the hard drive. Have you tried that yet? Would suggest trying it with
your i386 folder from eMachines. If that fails, try it again with the i386
from the borrowed CD.

Here's the reference to the article again:
"Cannot Copy File Fxscfgwz.dll" Error Message When You Try to Install
Windows XP Fax Services
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

I studied that article, Sharon, and downloaded it, and I followed
on my machine, and saw the "expand" button but didn't do anything
yet. I'll experiment some more this evening.

I may have been unclear about the eMachines CD. It contains only
a Ghost image which (a far as I can determine) is useless in
doing anything other than a bulk replacement of the drive as
I first received it. Destroying what I have, so that's out.

What I've been trying to use in my CD reader is a genuine XP Pro
Installation CD. It has the .dll files in .dl_ form, ready to be
expanded into .dll files. But my hard drive already has those
files, as .dll files, in C:\Windows\System32\dllcache .....
My logic, which doesn't seem to be valid, says, If I have the .dll
files I need, on my hard drive, why can't the FAX installed use
them? I try to lead it to the file it asks for, and it won't
accept it. Are you telling me that the file fxsevent.dll that it
goes to the CD for (and isn't there in expanded form) is not
the fxsevent.dll file that is on my drive already, that the one on
my drive needs to be expanded?

Hope I'm not exasperating you....and the other people who have
been annoyed by my persistence in trying to solve a problem.

Bill Lurie
William B. Lurie
  #27  
Old March 30th 04, 01:41 AM
William B. Lurie
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Sharon, I've been experimenting with the Install Fax. I
found a whole slew of thwe fxs*.dll files in my hard
drive in C:\windows\system32\dllcache .... maybe even all
that the Fax Installer might need. But it won't accept
them in the installation process.

So I followed your msconfigExpand clue, and "expanded"
a few of them and saved them in a new folder C:\dllfiles.
Well, when I tried to Install, leading it to that folder
when it stopped during Install, looking for those files,
it wouldn't take them, either. It insists it wants them from
i386 on the CD ... yet, as I mentioned to you, on my XP Pro
Installation CD (*not* my OEM's Restore CD), they are all
present in .dl_ form. Has anything I've tried given you any
more clues as to how I can get past this roadblock?
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William B. Lurie
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Old March 30th 04, 02:21 AM
Sharon F
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:31:29 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:

So I followed your msconfigExpand clue, and "expanded"
a few of them and saved them in a new folder C:\dllfiles.


As I stated before, I didn't think that would work. At least you've learned
how to expand files if the need should ever arise. Have you tried copying
the i386 folder from the borrowed CD to the hard drive and using that to
install yet?

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Old March 30th 04, 02:41 AM
William B. Lurie
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Sharon F wrote:

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:31:29 -0500, William B. Lurie wrote:


So I followed your msconfigExpand clue, and "expanded"
a few of them and saved them in a new folder C:\dllfiles.



As I stated before, I didn't think that would work. At least you've learned
how to expand files if the need should ever arise. Have you tried copying
the i386 folder from the borrowed CD to the hard drive and using that to
install yet?

Gosh, I'm afraid to do that! Maybe if I put the existing folder into
storage someplace, so I can put it back if need be. I guess that's
my next step. I can't understand why it says go to i386 on the CD
and then when I click it, it refuses to do anything.


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Old March 30th 04, 03:41 AM
William B. Lurie
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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
 




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