Maybe you're not logged into a user account with administrator privileges?

Nope, I am logged in as administrator. But thanks for trying!

Jeff

Perhaps I need to redownload vdmsound? here is the md5 checksum for my .msi file:

E4C1C8BED2F29008FBD5F1ECC9D3D84D VDMSound-2.0.4-WinNT-i386.msi

Get md5 here:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/

Jeff

Hrmmm...

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showthread.php?threadid=91&highlight=failed+to+register

I already looked at those, but thanks. Maybe I should repair my windows installation, but I just installed! That would really be stupid if I had to do that.

Well anyway, my downloaded file is fine. I just installed VDMSound on a windows 2000 machine and I got to play settlers 2 with everything working. Yay!

But still.... stupid XP. Perhaps I should go back to win2k.

Jeff

Sounds like a good idea to me. 😉

Seriously though, you might consider if you haven't installing allllll the crappy upgrades, including DirectX 9.0a and Service Pack 1.

I installed sp1 and all the critical updates. Um.... DirectX 9? It seems like that shouldn't be necessary, because my win2k machine only has direct x 8. Besides, I don't wanna download 8 mb on a phone line modem. 😀

Thanks for all the help, guys. It looks like I'm stuck, eh? Oh well, not a big deal.

Thanks,
Jeff

heh, well, it really doesn't make any sense.

This has happened before, but it appears to be a fluke that only happens to a rare few. I've had to reinstall XP multiple times ( on two PC's and a Virtual PC as well...) and had to re-install VDMSound as well. Never had it happen to me.

Jeff, I had a similar problem a few weeks ago and could not install *any* program my Windows 2000 laptop at work.

Something messed with my registry and I was about to reinstall Windows when I had this crazy idea: since Internet Explorer is tightly integrated with the OS and updates a lot of internal stuff in Windows, I went to the Control Panel, Add Remove Programs, selected IE and chose the option to Repair the installation. The IE setup program ran for a while (you must be connected to the internet for this to work) and asked for a reboot. After rebooting, installation of new programs went fine. Don't ask me why, it simply worked. Maybe you want to give it a try.

Regards,

MajorGrubert,
I tried sfc /scannow (which checks system files) but it didn't do the trick. Actually, all it did was force me to reinstall my video and ethernet drivers.

Reinstalling IE on winxp seems a bit complicated:
http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/howto-03.html

Again, I'm on a modem connection, so installing internet explorer 6 is not really an option.

But thanks anyway!
Jeff

You can always "hack". Install VDMSound as-is, ignore the errors. Then go on SourceForge (VDMSound project) under support, show all cases (including closed); one has an attached .zip with .reg files to register the DLL's (lo-tech, but works). For some reason regsvr32.exe doesn't work on your system (either some registry cleaner program was installed or some other software is inetrfereing, or OLE is foobar on your XP).

Cheers,
V.

Unregistered wrote:

MajorGrubert,
I tried sfc /scannow (which checks system files) but it didn't do the trick. Actually, all it did was force me to reinstall my video and ethernet drivers.

Or you're using BlackViper's SuperTweak, in which case, how are you even connected to the internet? 😉