N2HQ Installation

Ok, I downloaded the most recent N2hq 32-bit (I'm running win95). I run the setup.exe program after unzipping the files and it says it is 'Copying initialization files...' The disk goes for a few seconds and then an error window/box pops up, saying 'Unexpected error; quitting.' and that's that. I've tried downloading n2hq from 4 different nascar2 sites and this has happened every time, so it wasn't just a bad download fluke. I had n2hq before and it ran fine. This was before the '32 bit version' came out. Anyway, can anyone help with this?

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>Ok, I downloaded the most recent N2hq 32-bit (I'm running win95). I >run the setup.exe program after unzipping the files and it says it is >'Copying initialization files...' The disk goes for a few seconds and >then an error window/box pops up, saying 'Unexpected error; quitting.' >and that's that. I've tried downloading n2hq from 4 different nascar2 >sites and this has happened every time, so it wasn't just a bad >download fluke. I had n2hq before and it ran fine. This was before >the '32 bit version' came out. Anyway, can anyone help with this?

An addendum to that... After hunting down and re-installing a bunch of visual basic libraries and stuff, I decided to just start over with a clean download of the very latest version of n2hq. I grabbed the latest win95 full version. It seemed to install fine. But when I try to run it, I get 'Unexpected error; quitting.' Not exactly a very helpful error message. What's with all the different vb libraries anyway? For example, n2hq installs a comctl32.ocx that's about 200k larger than the comctl32.ocx I've seen elsewhere.

I've experienced the same problems recently with the latest versions of n2hq. I would guess that there is a conflict with a dll or some such that wasn't a problem with earlier versions of n2hq. I'm actually able to install and run it on a machine at work, but not on my machine at home. More detective work is needed to figure out which dll is causing the problem. You are not alone! ------------------------------------------------------------- Michael F. Hundley Santa Fe, New Mexico USA -------------------------------------------------------------

Eventually, I found out that there was a problem also with my ole32 and oleaut stuff, so I snagged those off some web page (don't remember which, but searching for these brings up plenty of them). I installed and registered them and my problems were solved. Incidentally, I mentioned in one of my other posts that the comctl32 that n2hq installs is like 200k larger than any of the other version I've seen... Well I was using some app today that used comctl32 also and it gave me a warning that the version I was using was meant to be used only for Windows NT... Any idea what's up with that? I mean should I keep the version n2hq installed (without asking me if it should overwrite existing versions, I might add), or go back to a previous version?