Instaling SoU

IHateUsernames · Post by **IHateUsernames** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 6:05 am

I need help instaling SoU. when i click on the icon to get the window where it says instal, it give me a mesage. Im going to try to translate but im also going to display it in danish if anyone knows the language (*cough*Xandax*cough*) im not a great technical person but it seems im missing a DLL file. here it is first danish then english

"Filen AUTORUN.EXE er sammenkædet med en manglende eksportfil OLEAUT32.DLL:173"

"The file AUTORUN.EXE is linked to a missing exportfile OLEAUT32.DLL:173"
i hope you know what it means. exportfile is directly translated so its probaply wrong

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 7:29 am

What OS and what service pack are you running. It seems that your OLEAUT32.DLL is outdated (or missing, check your \system32 directory) and the only thing I've been able to dig up is to try and get a new version (possible from Service Packs ... check out Microsoft site)

EDIT: or try this zip file if you dare. I just fell over it, dunno if it will fix it or not.
http://www.weaksignals.com/bin/oleaut32.zip
(linked from http://atanasoff.rf.org/pipermail/lf/2002q3/001342.html )

IHateUsernames · Post by **IHateUsernames** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 7:07 am

ill check your zip first though (hope it helps)

thank you

might sound stupid but im no great technical person:

does OS mean operating sytem??

and whats Sevice Packs??

sorry for the stupid questions but im not used to upgrading my computer.

EDIT: It seems i have the file and i cant remove it as windows is using it. how can i do this??

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:40 am

OS is indeed operating systems. Service Packs are patches microsoft releases for their OS. For instance Service Pack 4 have just been released for Win2K. (dunno what there is for XP) I think Win98 had some also.

You (maybe?) proberly have to be in "safe mode" to repleace the file then.
I am not really sure, cause I've never seen this problem before and the information on the net is very limited.

IHateUsernames · Post by **IHateUsernames** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 6:09 am

ill try going into safe mode. thanks for your help

IHateUsernames · Post by **IHateUsernames** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 7:05 am

the safe mode did not work. the problem is windows is using the file all the time. any other ideas? any ifo would help

IHateUsernames · Post by **IHateUsernames** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 7:09 am

i might have found a way to do it on a dll download file. ill need to go to dos. ill report back if it works or not

EDIT: could anyone tell me how to go to DOS in a windows 98?
the way i thought was not the right one

garazdawi · Post by **garazdawi** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 2:22 pm

The best way(IMO) is to go through the Win98 CD, just start the computer with the cd and when the boot screen asks if you want to boot form the hard drive or the CD-ROM then select the cd and voilá you're running with any files on the hard drive. This usually takes care of all those cases when Safe mode doesn't work

There's also supposed to be an option when you shut down the computer(in the list where you select to shut down/reboot/sleep/Reboot into MS-DOS) the altter being what you want to select

IHateUsernames · Post by **IHateUsernames** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:48 am

ill see if i can find the cd. thanx

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 4:10 am

I seem to recall in Win98 that you could boot up in DOS from the boot menu (same place you select "safe mode").

IHateUsernames · Post by **IHateUsernames** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 7:42 am

no ive tried it. no if i could just find that stupid cd

*moves away mumbling*

garazdawi · Post by **garazdawi** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 7:46 am

You could also create a boot diskette and use that...it would do the same thing but at an even lower level. But I think you need the CD to create it anyways.....

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 8:27 am

If you need a boot disk try http://www.bootdisk.com/

IHateUsernames · Post by **IHateUsernames** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 10:07 am

i think i have a bootdisk somewhere. thank god you said that as im geting impatient and cant find my cd

garazdawi · Post by **garazdawi** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 11:53 am

Originally posted by IHateUsernames
i think i have a bootdisk somewhere. thank god you said that as im geting impatient and cant find my cd

great :d just make sure that your boot sequence detects the disk and you should be fine