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WinSMITH Weibull and WinSMITH Visual can be installed on the Vista® operating system from Microsoft.
Some installations on the
1. OCX files not properly registered, and
2. Problems of accessing the help file!
Here are some hints and
workarounds. Before you do
these modifications, back up your registry!!!!
1. After installation you get an error message
that says
“Run time Error 339. Grid 32 OCX not
properly registered etc”?
It seems this problem may be
associated with the new security features of
To fix the OCX registration problem, do this:
a) Download the file http://www.barringer1.com/Anonymous/grid-reg.zip
.
Unzip the file which was provided by
Microsoft to solve my problem.
Rename the file from grid-reg.txt to grid-reg.reg .
Double click on the grid-reg.reg file (this will reregister
the files in your registry)
Restart
the system.
Now
b) Microsoft says, if
method a) results in a persisting issue:
then run MSCONFIG,
select Tools,
select “Disable UAC”,
click Launch,
click OK,
and
Restart
the system.
c) Another reported technique from Jorge Granada
is:
Open the grid-reg.txt file in Word Pad,
from the start menu click on Run
type in REGEDIT
import the file from Word Pad
save
REGEDIT
Method a) and b) are from a Microsoft Support Incident: SRZ070104003074
between Barringer and Zheng on January 08, 2007. Method c) is a technique reported by
2. If you can not access
to the help files in
If you have downloaded and installed the big bunch of VISTA upgrades, when you click on the WinSmith help file, down will come a hyperlink for you to follow (by the way, when I first installed VISTA it did not have the hyperlink!!!!) so Microsoft is still trying to overcome their internal screw-ups in my opinion!!). I case you want to short circuit the long route of typical Microsoft talk, go to:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607
on that document you will see another hyperlink to a Windows Help program called WinHlp32.exe page.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=82148
where you must click on the “Continue” button will open the Internet Explorer “Add-on Installer package” to get the “Windows Genuine Advantage” program installed. This will in turn open a Windows Help program with two hyperlinks.
One help file is for the 32-bit system and one for the 64-bit system. Suggest you choose the file that reads:
Windows6.0-KB917607-x86.msu which is 601KB in size and you get it by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button.
The file choice you DON’T need is usually Windows6.0-KB917607-x64.msu . By the
way, if you click on the wrong file,
After you go thru this tedious installation effort, you’ll
be able to read the help files under the
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