Under XP, I simply open the zip file and click on setup.exe. It does the
upgrade without any need for recopying the files. Have now gone through the
last two upgrades this way, and no problems to report.
73
Jon K1US
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dyer" <sdyer@interlogue.com>
To: "Phil Cooper" <pcooper@guernsey.net>
Cc: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 20:34
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Re: the "WL not installed message"
> Good catch. I am sure this will be a common error with XP as it has built
in
> .zip support.
>
> Steve, W1SRD
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Phil Cooper
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:52 AM
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] Re: the "WL not installed message"
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> After seeing the email from David VK2DPD, and also trying to get WL up and
> running on my own new shack PC, I accidentally came across the answer to
the
> problem of getting WRITELOG NOT INSTALLED when trying to get either the
new
> upgrades installed, or the MMTTY plug-in going.
>
> As I use a PC indoors for the internet (56k modem, and it took about 20
> minutes to get 10.33!!), I copy the file to a CD-RW and then take that to
> the shack PC for installation.
>
> What I did was to open a zip file, and then click on the setup.exe from
> there. AND I GOT THAT MESSAGE!
>
> So, the moral of the tale is that you MUST copy the zipped file to a
> (temporary) directory, unzip the files to that directory, and only THEN
run
> the setup.exe.
>
> I know it says all that in the help files, but I only did it by accident,
as
> I was poking around to see what was in there, and just clicked on the
setup
> file.
>
> Ron, it may be worth noting this in bold on the WL website? As I am sure I
> have seen this query before, and I am sure we will see it again.
>
> Cheers for now
> Phil GU0SUP
>
>
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