MystyGlyttyr
08-03-2006, 02:58 PM
Okay, I have an E-machine at home, don't know too many of the specs or anything off the top of my head, but it's a new (by that I mean less than a year old) machine. Never given us any trouble before until now, and I'm wondering if it's something I accidently did to it, and if so, does anyone have any ideas what?
I had installed some games on it for my parents, Masters of Orion 2 for my dad and Ultimate Mah-jongg for my mother. The games came off CDs, but I did a total install of them onto the hard drive since my folks are notoriously bad with computer CDs. They worked fine from the moment of installation. However, in the last week or so, I've been attacking the Norton/McAfee pre-installs that came with the computer, planning to get rid of them and get something better. I opened them and adjusted the settings on Norton to as low as I could get them and uninstalled McAfee completely (haven't taken it on the Internet yet, at work right now). I don't know of any other programs that could be interfering on the computer.
However, now the games for my folks aren't working. My copy of SimCity still works fine, however, Masters of Orion and Mah-jongg, when you click them to try and open them, only give me an error message which basically said "There was an error opening your program, now it'll be shut down". (So informative, that.) I've tried repairing the programs, running them off the CDs, completely uninstalling and re-installing them, and nothing has worked so far.
While I'm not sure what fiddling with the anti-virus software could have to do with anything (I'm not THAT techie), I know that's the only major change I'd made to the system since the problem cropped up. The error message keeps asking me to file a report with Microsoft, and six filed reports later, no tomato. :blah:
I know it probably sounds like a goofy, rather Stupid Computer Owner question, but after reading all the manuals, all the error messages, and getting nowhere with any of the Microsoft tech support, I thought it couldn't hurt to ask the smarter people here :lol:
I had installed some games on it for my parents, Masters of Orion 2 for my dad and Ultimate Mah-jongg for my mother. The games came off CDs, but I did a total install of them onto the hard drive since my folks are notoriously bad with computer CDs. They worked fine from the moment of installation. However, in the last week or so, I've been attacking the Norton/McAfee pre-installs that came with the computer, planning to get rid of them and get something better. I opened them and adjusted the settings on Norton to as low as I could get them and uninstalled McAfee completely (haven't taken it on the Internet yet, at work right now). I don't know of any other programs that could be interfering on the computer.
However, now the games for my folks aren't working. My copy of SimCity still works fine, however, Masters of Orion and Mah-jongg, when you click them to try and open them, only give me an error message which basically said "There was an error opening your program, now it'll be shut down". (So informative, that.) I've tried repairing the programs, running them off the CDs, completely uninstalling and re-installing them, and nothing has worked so far.
While I'm not sure what fiddling with the anti-virus software could have to do with anything (I'm not THAT techie), I know that's the only major change I'd made to the system since the problem cropped up. The error message keeps asking me to file a report with Microsoft, and six filed reports later, no tomato. :blah:
I know it probably sounds like a goofy, rather Stupid Computer Owner question, but after reading all the manuals, all the error messages, and getting nowhere with any of the Microsoft tech support, I thought it couldn't hurt to ask the smarter people here :lol: