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Expert: Meg Darling - 1/21/2002


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Hi Meg -- I hope you can help me or point me to someone who can.  Whenever we used to put in a CD-rom, the computer game would automatically run (start or install).  The last couple of times we have tried to do this with games we have already installed, it just makes a bunch of noise but the game does not begin.  We have resorted to going to the "Run" option and entering the D:\setup for each game.  This is frustrating, to say the least!  HELP!!!  Thanks!  Diane

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This has happened to me before.  Click/double click on the following:

START
SETTINGS
CONTROL PANEL
SYSTEM
DEVICE MANAGER
CDROM
-choose your drive
SETTINGS tab
-make sure there's a check mark in the "AUTO INSERT NOTIFICATION" box
OK
restart your computer

This didn't work on one of my old PC's so I put a shortcut to "ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS" to my desktop.  It is much faster than the "RUN" option.

To do this, go into your CONTROL PANEL and right click on the ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS icon.  Slide your cursor down to "SEND TO" and choose DESKTOP (CREATE A SHORTCUT).  Then whenever you need to do an install, put the CD into the drive and click/double click on the new icon.  Click INSTALL near the top/right of the window and OK when the command line comes up.  

Hope this works,
Meg  

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I can help with most Adventure games from small hints to complete walkthroughs. I`ve finished/beat all the popular games including Myst, Riven, and the Gabriel Knight series without help. New games are added to my list often. **Sorry, I am not a computer expert, so technical advice is rarely given. Please visit the manufacturer`s web-site for tech support.**

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Here are some of the games I've played: the 7th Guest, 11th Hour, Adventure at the Chateau d'Or, Amber: Journey's Beyond, Albert Hitchcok's Final Cut, Amerzone, Arthur's Knights: Tales of Chivalry, Arthur's Knights II: the Secret of Merlin, Atlantis: the Lost Tales, Aura: Fate of the Ages, Beyond Atlantis I and II, Beyond Time, Black Dahlia, Black Mirror, Blackstone Chronicles, Blade Runner, Broken Sword: the Sleeping Dragon, Byzantine: the Betrayal, the Cameron Files: Pharoah's Curse, the Cameron Files: Secret at Loch Ness, Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion, Cold Case Files; the Crystal Key, CSI, CSI: Dark Motives, CSI Miami, Dark Fall I and II, Dracula Resurrection, Dracula: the Last Sanctuary, Egypt 1156 BC: Tomb of the Pharaoh, Forever Worlds, the Forgotten... It Begins, Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster, Gabriel Knight I, II, and III, In Cold Blood, Inherent Evil: the Haunted Hotel, Jack the Ripper, Jazz & Faust, the Journeyman Project III: Legacy of Time, Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis, Law & Order I, II, III, & IV, Lightbringer (AKA Cydonia), Lighthouse, the Longest Journey I and II (Dreamfall), Martian Gothic Unification, Messenger, Missing since January (aka In Memoriam), Monkey Island I, II, III and IV, Mummy: Tomb of the Pharaoh, Messenger, Myst, Myst III: Exile, Myst IV Revelation, Mysterious Journey: Schizm, the Mystery of the Nautilus, Nancy Drew series; Necronomicon, Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy, Omega Stone (ROTS2), Phantasmagoria I and II, Post Mortem, Quest for Karma (AKA Karma: Curse of the 12 Caves), Reah, realMyst, Return to Zork, Riddle of the Sphinx, Ring, Riven: the Sequel to Myst, Safecracker, Sanitarium, Seven (aka Faust), Shivers I and II, Still Life, Syberia I & II, Timelapse, Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, Traitor's Gate, the X-Files, Zork Grand Inquisitor, and Zork Nemesis.

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