Re: For those of us that are computer illiterate
 

SJ,
Well said. I do desktop support for about 100 people. It is good to see another support person who does not deride the Users. When I supported MS, (don't hate me), many of the techs did it on a regular basis in subtle back handed ways. It was nothing you could point at since the tone infection was polite. Later in the "real world" I found they continued to do so.
I'd work for you anyday.

Re: For those of us that are computer illiterate
 

Those of us working in the computer support industry often fall victim to the "Nick Burns" syndrome. But hopefully noone does that in this forum. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Tks SJ, Geo, Val, Tesco for the help, I admit I'm not one up on computerology, so I need all the help I can get and I have a hunch there are more out there they just afraid to say or ask, But, I admit my ignorance in certain aspects of Mods. Tks again, and SJ, by all means do the pics, anything that will help, Now for my dumb question of the day.

I go to my computer, find D drive, find the extras with the mods on the CD, now when I pick one, up pops winzip which I have, This is the one place I lose it. When I unzipped it, it went to the unzipped file folder and created folder of its own in My Documents, this was the Mod Helper Mod. Soooo, When it shows the path in the box, before I hit the unzip button what do I change in order to get it to go to SE4Gold or get it to the desktop? dumb right?

willing to learn mac

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Re: For those of us that are computer illiterate
 

Go figure - I do tech support as well, and have the Nick Burns episodes in .avi on my PC http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Must be where we all get our love of logistics in SE IV!

I've actually types up pages of documentation (along with screen captures) for them, so I got a chuckle when I read SJs first response http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

GrowlTigga:

Yeah, hate to replay that thread!

Re: For those of us that are computer illiterate
 

The next TDM-ModPack might feature an "Install Shield" and with some luck it might be even capable of finding SE4 on its own. No more hassling with the pack...

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Now that is a good idea!

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Hrmph. Here I was, thinking that the shrapnel forum was down (I could see any other site, and even shrapnels homepage), when it is just IE that refuses to load it.
Netscape 4.7 slogs through a slow transfer, and a few broken images, and here I am.

To start with, go here and download TDMv3.00.zip, unless you can find a TDM Version 3 on your CD, then just copy instead of downloading.

Images: (interlaced, and kept down to 50Kb each, so some look better than others)
#1.gif: Starting Download from the SE4 AI file-posting thread..
#2.gif: Save to a nice place.
#3.gif: Find your download.
#4.gif: Open Zip with Winzip.
#5.gif: Open Extraction dialog.
#6.gif: Find SE4 directory, and press extract.
#7.gif: Extracting TDM
#8.gif: Open "My Computer"
#9.gif: Browse to SE4, and note "TDM-Modpack" is one of the folders.
#10.gif: Open Path.txt
#11.gif: Change the path, and save.
#12.gif: Close Path.txt, and Run Se4
#13.gif: SE4 loading, with TDM text in the corner.
#14.gif: TDM races are available.

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Re: For those of us that are computer illiterate
 

SJ,

Does it seem around 11-12pm the Last few nights, the shrapnel forum has been down? It happened to me Last night too. Every other site works fine too. Are you using rogers@home?

Re: For those of us that are computer illiterate
 

I have the same problems. Must be the server.

Anyway, I have posted the TDM-ModPack with an Install Shield that should be capable of locating the right directory on its own.

Grab it here.

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I am seeing the problem as well. and I am on dsl