GPL won't start any more:-(

Boo Hoo:-( I'm most pissed off as GPL has decided to stop working all of a sudden. Start it up and you just get the screen with the gpl logo and then it drops back to the desktop. I've seen this problem before but it's so long ago I just can't remeber what fixed it. The odd thing is that it is happening on all four of my pc's, both with win2k and xp. The only thing I can think of that has changed since GPL last worked is that I've re-built my domain contoller and I've updated to later nvidia detonators (41.03) plus the usual ms patches. I've even tried a fresh install of GPL and it does the same. Can you help me out guys as I'm geting an itchy right foot. Some Call Me Tim

I had the same prob... Try turning on the Indexing Service for the hard drive that GPL is on - worked for me :) Right click Hard Drive > Properties > turn on 'Allow Indexing Service To Index This Disk' Hope it works Ross On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:00:21 -0000, "Some Call Me Tim" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Boo Hoo:-( I'm most pissed off as GPL has decided to stop working all of a >sudden. >Start it up and you just get the screen with the gpl logo and then it drops >back to the desktop. I've seen this problem before but it's so long ago I >just can't remeber what fixed it. >The odd thing is that it is happening on all four of my pc's, both with >win2k and xp. The only thing I can think of that has changed since GPL last >worked is that I've re-built my domain contoller and I've updated to later >nvidia detonators (41.03) plus the usual ms patches. I've even tried a fresh >install of GPL and it does the same. > >Can you help me out guys as I'm geting an itchy right foot. > >Some Call Me Tim > >

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> -- > Some Call Me Tim > "Ross Halliday" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > I had the same prob... > > > > Try turning on the Indexing Service for the hard drive that GPL is on > > - worked for me :) > > > > Right click Hard Drive > Properties > turn on 'Allow Indexing Service > > To Index This Disk' > > > > Hope it works > > Just tried that and unfortunately it didn't work and logiaclly I can't see > how it could. I've never run indexing before and neither should you as

it's > real resource hog. You only really ned to run it on a file server's data > disk. Allowing indexing on the gpl folder is not the same as enabling it. From what others have posted here recently, you should be able to allow indexing on the gpl folder without having to actually switch it on. Do a google search on this group & you'll find loads of comments on this common problem. Hope you get it working ;-) Malc.

> > Allowing indexing on the gpl folder is not the same as enabling it. From > what others have posted here recently, you should be able to allowindexing > on the gpl folder without having to actually switch it on. Do a google > search on this group & you'll find loads of comments on this commonproblem. > Hope you get it working ;-) > > Malc. > >Although the service has never been running, the disk has always been set to allow indexing. I've tried taking it off and putting it back on again but to no avail. Besides it's happening on not one but all of pc pcs. I'm going to try reverting to earlier detonators as thats one on the few things that have changed since I last has GPL going. Thanks Some Call Me Tim

Ah ha! I've found the answer! It's nothing do do with indexing or even graphics drivers. It was in fact file compression. Some time last month I'd gone through several games and compressed the folders wasting the most space and I'd compressed GPL's Player, Car and tracks folders to save quite abit of space (300Mb out of 1Gb in fact). I uncompressed them and hey presto. This was also the problem on my other PC's too. It's quite strange that GPL doesn't like this as I've compressed quite a few games and they all work fine except GPL. Anyway I'm a happy bunny again now so I must go and put my foot down Some Call Me Tim

Could you tell me how to do that in XP? I'm running out of space. Thanks "Some Call Me Tim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Ah ha! > > I've found the answer! It's nothing do do with indexing or even graphics > drivers. It was in fact file compression. Some time last month I'd gone > through several games and compressed the folders wasting the most spaceand > I'd compressed GPL's Player, Car and tracks folders to save quite abit of > space (300Mb out of 1Gb in fact). I uncompressed them and hey presto. This > was also the problem on my other PC's too. > > It's quite strange that GPL doesn't like this as I've compressed quite afew

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> games and they all work fine except GPL. > > Anyway I'm a happy bunny again now so I must go and put my foot down > > Some Call Me Tim > >

-- Some Call Me Tim "John Pickett" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:apv7e9$e8$[email hidden]... > Could you tell me how to do that in XP? I'm running out of space. Thanks No problem John it's quite easy. Hopefully you're running XP Pro not the Dreaded Home edition which does not use NTFS and therefore file/folder compression. Simply Right click on the file/folder you want to compress and click properties.On the first general tab click the advanced box then tick the box compress contents to save space. Click ok then apply and tick radio button apply changes to this folder and subfolders and hay presto. It's best to use something like treesize pro to see which files are wasting the most space, it's not much point compressing compressed files like jpgs, zips quake base files etc. Some Call Me Tim

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> > -- > Some Call Me Tim > "John Pickett" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:apv7e9$e8$[email hidden]... > > Could you tell me how to do that in XP? I'm running out of space. Thanks > > No problem John it's quite easy. Hopefully you're running XP Pro not the > Dreaded Home edition which does not use NTFS and therefore file/folder > compression.

XPHome uses NTFS just fine Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/ "A man is only as old as the woman he feels" --Groucho Marx--

> > XPHome uses NTFS just fine >Not not in the version sold in the UK it doesn't. You might be able to read an already formated disk but you certainly can't create and NTFS partition. Some Call Me Tim

Some Call Me Tim wrote: > > > > > XPHome uses NTFS just fine > > > Not not in the version sold in the UK it doesn't. You might be able to read > an already formated disk but you certainly can't create and NTFS partition. When I build a new computer to a customer and setup WinXP for the first time it defaults to using NTFS on the partition it creates Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy "The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/ "A man is only as old as the woman he feels" --Groucho Marx--

Damn, I'm pretty sure my disk is fat32, I don't see that option at all :-( "Some Call Me Tim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > > -- > Some Call Me Tim > "John Pickett" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:apv7e9$e8$[email hidden]... > > Could you tell me how to do that in XP? I'm running out of space.

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> > No problem John it's quite easy. Hopefully you're running XP Pro not the > Dreaded Home edition which does not use NTFS and therefore file/folder > compression. > > Simply Right click on the file/folder you want to compress and click > properties.On the first general tab click the advanced box then tick the

box > compress contents to save space. Click ok then apply and tick radio button > apply changes to this folder and subfolders and hay presto. > > It's best to use something like treesize pro to see which files arewasting > the most space, it's not much point compressing compressed files likejpgs, > zips quake base files etc. > > Some Call Me Tim > >

Some Call Me Tim wrote: > > > > > XPHome uses NTFS just fine > > > Not not in the version sold in the UK it doesn't. You might be able to read > an already formated disk but you certainly can't create and NTFS partition. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/gettingstarted/guide/newinstallation.asp Sorry about the wrapped URL.... Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy http://www.theuspits.com "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........" --Groucho Marx--

> > > XPHome uses NTFS just fine > > > > > Not not in the version sold in the UK it doesn't. You might be able toread > > an already formated disk but you certainly can't create and NTFSpartition. > > >http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/gettingstarted/guide/new installation.asp

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> > Sorry about the wrapped URL.... > > > Beers and cheers > (uncle) Goy > > http://www.theuspits.com > > "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........" > --Groucho Marx--

Sorry your're right there I've only seen pre installed systems and they have all been set to use fat32 and you can't upgrade. The big problem of course is not being able to join a domain which is something even 95 could do. Some Call Me Tim

Some Call Me Tim wrote: > > Sorry your're right there I've only seen pre installed systems and they have > all been set to use fat32 and you can't upgrade. The big problem of course > is not being able to join a domain which is something even 95 could do. Yeah....hence the reason all my PC's run WinXP PRO as my network is Domain based, considering that the XP Home version costs roughly half of what the PRO version costs, I could have saved a bundle on those 10 licenses Beers and cheers (uncle) Goy http://www.theuspits.com "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........" --Groucho Marx--

On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 14:16:29 +0100, Goy Larsen wrote:

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> > > Some Call Me Tim wrote: >> >> > >> > XPHome uses NTFS just fine >> > >> Not not in the version sold in the UK it doesn't. You might be able to read >> an already formated disk but you certainly can't create and NTFS partition. > > When I build a new computer to a customer and setup WinXP for the first > time it defaults to using NTFS on the partition it creates > >

not using ntfs is a blessing in disguise at it will save you quite a few headaches should you install some other operating system alongside XP on your machine. Last I checked for instance Linux could read NTFS partitions, but write access was still labelled "experiemental". OTOH it works wonderfully with FAT32 partitions. cheers & HTH, uwe -- mail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox) Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61