Character Editor not working

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  1. Vorak

    Vorak Administrator Staff Member

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    Okay, so I wanted to edit Virgil to give him a slightly less useless set of skills but for some reason no matter how many fresh downloads I make I keep getting the following:

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    Component 'MSCOMCT2.OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid
     
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    Is this the Character Editor 1.8?
    If so you A) need to copy all the OCX and DLLs into your Windows/System folder or B) "run command under the start menu and
    type Regsvr32 C:\windows\system\msstdfmt.dll " stolen from the Readme :)

    Option B is what I had to do to get the editor up and running
     
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  3. Vorak

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    Its been to long since I used this thing.

    Tried all that and now I get error code 0x8002801c
     
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    Sorry that seems to be a Vista issue.

    I have 0 experience with it :(
     
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  5. Vorak

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    It doesn't really matter I just like to take away Virgil's lockpicking points and put them elsewhere as well as a few other minor changes.
     
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    It'sn't a vista issue. I've Vista Ultimate, and can run both Arcanum and CE 1.8 fine. Did you register all the files? If memory serves, you've to register each file. I can't quite remember what exactly I mean by register. But I think you had to do that. :)
     
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    Problem Solved

    User Access Control was blocking the files from properly registering, just turn off UAC and you can install it with no issues.
     
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    Sorry for bringing this up again but I am also trying to get this to work.

    I have given myself admin prev. (turned off the UAC)
    ran all the prompts for registering the dlls
    But I now get a new error which I think is special to Windows 7
    Anyways I'm having the hardest time getting this to work.
    Could someone who has gone through this give me a step by step walkthrough.


    I have the files in my Windows/System file already, just need some hand holding is all.

    Thank you.
     
    DecaffinatedMeowMix, Nov 14, 2010
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