Freecell

[Zonie]

I have a clients PC which has been running great for quite sometime now, but developed a strange issue the other day. When you open Freecell to play it, the title bar displays something that looks like Wingdings and when you click on New Game, the hour glass just sits there after the cards appear. You can close the program by clicking the X.

I have removed the program from add remove in windows, rebooted and reinstalled to no avail. I have deleted the .exe and put in one from another machine. No go. This is the only program window this happens in. Every other program is fine. Have checked for virus, spyware, system file check and all is clean. Any ideas would be appreciated.

[meatwad]

I have a clients PC which has been running great for quite sometime now, but developed a strange issue the other day. When you open Freecell to play it, the title bar displays something that looks like Wingdings and when you click on New Game, the hour glass just sits there after the cards appear. You can close the program by clicking the X.

I have removed the program from add remove in windows, rebooted and reinstalled to no avail. I have deleted the .exe and put in one from another machine. No go. This is the only program window this happens in. Every other program is fine. Have checked for virus, spyware, system file check and all is clean. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Disable McAfee (assuming it has it) and see if that fixes your problem.

[Zonie]

Disable McAfee (assuming it has it) and see if that fixes your problem.

The PC is running norton and has been on there for over 2 years. It was running fine before. Thank you for quick response.

[BlueRook]

I have the same problem with my Father's computer. I updated his 98 (first edition) machine with IE 6 SP 1 and a few days later he tried playing freecell but had the described problem.

Using a known good exe gave the same results. My only guess is that freecell uses a system dll that was updated during the upgrade. Has anyone found a fix for this issue?

[confus-ed]

So welcome to windrivers BlueRook :thumbs:

I so do like fixing the pressing issues of the day :eek2:, freecell busted should improve efficiency by about 25% around the workplace :D - have a look at this ;-

How to Troubleshoot Win32s Installation Problems (http://web.mit.edu/cascon/microsoft/q106715.htm)

That should do it ..;)

[meatwad]

OK. I had one come in last week. Removed Norton AV and Norton Internet Security and it worked fine. Not sure if it'll fix it on yours, but it worked for me. (Both apps had expired)