If you installed this: VDMSound 2.1.0 PUBLIC BETA then you do not need to install Launchpad since it's already installed automagically when you install VDMSound.

Verify that you are an administrator when you install.

OK, uninstalled both...Again.

Reinstalled VDMSound.

Reboot.

Nothing happened. 😢

Did you get any error messages when installing?

Try this in your RUN box: regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\atl.dll and then reinstall VDMSound.

No error messages.

OK, did that, DosFreak.

How I'm doing this:

Uninstall.

Reboot.

Execute command DosFreak mentions.

Install VDMSound 2.1.0.

No error messages appear, all is happy.

Reboot again, just in case.

I right-click on an executable.

I see no VDMS options.

This saddens me. 😢

Penta - anything in the Event log (My Computer -> Administration -> Event Log -> System/Application)?

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ATW-EM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 0
Date: 3/7/2005
Time: 4:33:03 PM
User: N/A
<info redacted>
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ATW-EM ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: Failure copying file from backup failed: The system cannot find the file specified.

Hmm - I have no idea what that ATW-EM thing is. Do you, Penta? Do this error occur every time you try to install VDMSound, or could it be totally unrelated?

Every time, it looks like.

For the record, I'm using XP Pro, not XP Home.

Just to be sure, you are right clicking on a batch file or a DOS executable and not a Windows executable, aren't you?

Doh. I'm trying to run command aces of the deep, but...ugh.

Try Aces of the Deep, instead. Unlike Command Aces of the Deep, it is a DOS game, and is easy to get going. Command Aces of the Deep is a real problem to get working.

Hmm. Any idea where I could get the Med Expansion Disk, then?

That's the whole reason I went poking through CAOD.😀

Did you look on The Underdogs?

Yeah. Gotta buy AOD. CAOD is downloadable.

Can't help you here, but, Google is your friend.