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Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
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Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 03/05/00
Posts: 4,722
05/25/2005 10:11 pm
You said it...I feel like I'm in bizarro world or something. :cool:
I go to do something that I've been doing for 15 years and it doesn't work and I'm sitting here going 'what the ...'
I know I'm new to the Windows thing but my first impression is that the operating system is really clunky and outdated.

> "The first thing to try is right click on the program and select
> 'properties'. Click the 'Compatibility' tab and turn on compatibility
> mode for win95."

How the heck was I supposed to know that? It's supposed to be an advanced operating system. Can't it figure that out for itself? :rolleyes:

Ok.... an hour later and I've finally figured out how to do that... now I get "The instruction "0x77f5102" referenced memory at 0x0067006e"
The memory could not be written.
Click ok to terminate the program"

What next?