"Eric Jorgensen" > wrote in message
news:20050213093512.20f9739b@wafer...
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:19:23 -0800
> Top Spin > wrote:
>
>
>> WARNING! This software apparently does not run on Windows 2000. For
>> some strange reason, it runs on 98, ME, and XP, but not 2000. When I
>> installed it, it complained that a couple of files were missing.
>>
>> The missing files were mscomctl.ocx and mscomct2.ocx.
>
>
> These are very easy to come by, and fairly simple to install.
>
> It does, however, indicate that the people who wrote the program are
> less than professional. It would have been pretty easy for them to handle
> this automatically. It's more or less the hallmark of the
> barely-competent.
>
> Pimply faced geeks often write programs that need them but don't include
> them or tell you anywhere that you might have to track them down. Often
> between phone calls at their technical support job.
>
I wish I had half the computer/programming knowledge of the people around me
in the newsgroups. Aside from minor contact with the first pc installed
where I worked in the mid-80's, I had no contact with computers until
someone gifted me with a very old, cast off, corporate computer in '98, I
think. A whole world passed me by. I really regret that. Darn.
Janet