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Old July 17th 04, 05:39 PM
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When I double click the Freecell game shortcut from
desktop, the game appears but the display of cards does
not show. The four boxes are blue and where the freecell
name on title bar is suppose to show, it is garbled with
strange characters. What is causing this.
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Old July 18th 04, 11:33 AM
H Leboeuf
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Default freecell game garbled

Here are some issues to look for.

Problems Running FreeCell And Solitaire with Office XP Installed
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=3D304402

To work around this problem, prevent Ctfmon.exe from running. For =
information about how to prevent Ctfmon.exe from running, please see the =
following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:=20
282599 - OFFXP: What Is CTFMON and What Does It Do?:=20
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;282599

Also see:
Error: "FREECELL.EXE has caused a general protection fault in CARDS.DLL" =
when running FreeCell after installing CleanSweep:=20
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...ee5be87f85256=
90b0045c40c/2adbd7ff86bc1288852566cf00654c89?OpenDocument

Here are some replies I found in past newsgroup posts:

"I have now found out the problem for myself! It was to do with having
Mcafee Virus Scan 6 installed and when this is running it causes a conflict
with Freecell and Solitaire.
Disable virus scan when playing and everything works fine!"

"He had over 500 emails in his OE in-box and many 100's more saved in other
mailboxes.
These had a lot of big attachments like .JPG and .GIF files. He started
cleaning out his =
mailboxes and moving attachments off the HD to CD-R.
After all this OE mailbox cleanup, FreeCell works!"

"It was a piece of software sent by my ISP (Freeserve) to upgrade my account
to AnyTime.
If I press C/A/D and disable its ATdialler, FreeCell works."

"Free Cell was locking up until, by reading a message on this Newsgroup. I
turned off
IMGICON.EXE on the Start Menu (Control/Alt/Delete). By instruction from
Iomega, after trying updated download for the Iomega Zip drive, I did a
search for IMGICON.EXE and
deleted it. All Works fine now."
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Source: Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
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When I double click the Freecell game shortcut from
desktop, the game appears but the display of cards does
not show. The four boxes are blue and where the freecell
name on title bar is suppose to show, it is garbled with
strange characters. What is causing this.


 




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