| 1 |
Place
the GAMZ Player Version
2.50 or the GAMZ Jigsaw CD into the CD drive. Network users
please see Fix for XP Workstation |
| 2 |
With
Explorer or using My Computer, open the CD. It will
probably open automatically anyway. |
| 3 |
On
the CD, find and open
the folder spktext. |
| 4 |
In
this folder (spktext), right mouse button click on setup.exe
(or it may only be setup, depending on your folder view
options) and choose the option Properties from the pop up
menu.  |
| 5 |
Click
on the Compatibility tab. See below. |
| 6 |
Check
'Run this program in compatibility mode for:', by clicking on
the box or the text with your left mouse button. See below. |
| 7 |
Select
'Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 5)', by clicking and scrolling in
the drop down list just under 'Run this program in compatibility mode for:'.
No choice other than
'Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 5)' will work! See below. |
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| 8 |
Click
OK |
| 9 |
Run
setup(.exe) from within the folder spktext and proceed
with installation as usual.
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Explanation
(only if you are interested) |
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The
problem is that the Speak Text! installer only checks the major
version number of the operating system (i.e. NT5) but the difference lies in the minor version
number (2000 is NT5.0 and XP is NT5.1). Consequently, the installer does not
include the Microsoft
Speech Engine (4.0) to avoid a clash
with Narrator in Windows 2000.
Windows
XP also has Narrator, but it uses Microsoft Speech Engine
(5.0) and does not clash
with Microsoft Speech Engine (4.0). Consequently, the Microsoft Speech Engine (4.0)
does not get installed and Speak Text! fails! |
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However, Windows
XP has a clever tool which allows you to change the effective operating
system for
selected program files. |
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You
might find this utility useful for other pieces of software that
don't appear to be working correctly. However, this is the only GAMZ
product that needs it. |
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This
fix uses this utility and fools spktext\setup(.exe)
into believing that it is installing to Windows NT4
and all the components will be installed. :-) |
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To
clear the compatibility setting |
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Repeat
steps 1 to 6 above and uncheck
'Run this program in compatibility mode for:', by clicking on
the box or the text with your left mouse button. |
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Fix
for network on Windows XP workstations |
|
You
can either use on of the CDs as described above in each of the
workstations or you can find the folder spktext in the
network share on the server from the workstation and perform
the same process on setup(.exe)
there. |
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With the GAMZ
Jigsaw, this will be in the one and only GAMZ Jigsaw
shared folder. By default this is GAMZJIG* on the
server. |
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With the GAMZ Player Version
2.50, it will be in the CD Image shared folder. By default this
is GAMZCD* on the server. |
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* You may,
of course have named it something else or even put it somewhere
else; only you know. :-) |
