[Virtualacorn-list] New VRPC Installation Doesn't Start

[John McCartney]

On 08/07/2014 19:13, John McCartney wrote:
> On 08/07/2014 17:46, T.O.M.S. wrote:
>>
>> On Tue Jul 8 15:48:32 BST 2014, John McCartney j.mccartney at
>> blueyonder.co.uk  sayeth:
>>
>> (Various quotes coming up:)
>>
>>
>>> I've just transferred VRPC from my old desktop to the one I've
>>> just built.
>>
>>> On trying to start, a warning window appeared with
>>> the following message:
>>
>>> "Acorn RiscPC Emulator with RISC OS Adjust has stopped
>>> working"
>>
>>> Fault Module Name:    atapicd.dll
>>
>>
>> And further to my previous post at 17:32, I see there's a Support
>> article on just this very problem:
>>
>> http://www.virtualacorn.co.uk/support/articles/143/index.htm
>>
>> HTH, Alex
>
> Thanks for both your replies, Alex. I only looked at support for Windows
> 7 so I missed the help in the above link.
>
> I have a pressing engagement in the next few minutes (a recording of the
> highlights of today's stage of Le Tour de France). I'll give the editing
> of the registry option a go. However, I'll run CCleaner before that so
> that I can save a good version of the registry. I'd hate to screw that up.

Back again. I've had a look at the link and I have a query. The 
instructions in that link refer to Win 8 and I assume they take you to 
the cmd.exe window, you know, the one which looks like DOS. Initially, I 
assumed it took you the Run window and so I did a copy and paste into 
that but it seemed to have no effect, even after a re-boot.

o Make sure you are looking at the Windows 'Metro' front end.
o Type

   CMD

o Press Ctrl, Shift and Enter at the same time
o If Windows User Account Control asks "Do you want to allow the 
following program to make changes to this computer?" click on Yes.
Type:

   reg.exe add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi
   \Controller0" /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0x00000001

Unfortunately, copy from the desktop and paste into that window doesn't 
work so the process becomes somewhat fraught with peril. My typing is 
not guaranteed to be 100% accurate.

I've also run Regedit in order to look at the position where the 
modification would live and found that in Win 7 I can get as far as 
atapi. Within atapi are found 4 entries as follows:

Name		Type		Data
(Default)	REG_SZ		(value not set)
0		REG_SZ		Root\LEGACY_ATAPI\0000
Count		REG_DWORD	0x00000001 (1)
NextInstance	REG_DWORD	0x00000001 (1)

The first two have a preceding icon which shows ab in red (I assume it 
indicates the entry is textual) and the second two show an icon with 
blue digits - presumably indicating binary values.

These don't have much relation to the second part of the command after 
atapi.

So my query is, are the instructions in the link only valid for Win 8?

John
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John McCartney
j.mccartney at blueyonder.co.uk