Is anyone else having problems upgrading to Bryce 5 from 4 and using Windows ME? I am having a beast of a time but we were able to upgrade on my fiance's computer. His is slower and with less RAM than mine but, he uses Windows 98.

what is particular problem?

First the unInstaller won't initialize. In and of itself, this is not a HUGE problem... but, then, I get this message: An error occurred during the move data process: -145 Component: Program Files File Group: Program Files File: I've turned off all programs running in the background except for Explorer and Systray. I've tried installing this about 5 times. I get the same error message every time and I really hate the fact that I have to pay Corel for tech support.

I've had problems like that wirh other software, but not Bryce. It was my FAT(file allocation table) and I had to reformat the system, after that it was fine. Itsounds to me like something is corrupt in Windows, an dusualyy (for me at least) reformatting is the only dependable solution. kaom

I've at times had similar problems on my wife's machine which has a dvd drive rather than a cdrom drive. Curiously, if I copied all the files from the cd to a temporary directory on the hard disk I could then install from those copies. The only problem is that some software tracks the source of the installation files. In such cases you must track down the ini file or registry entries to change the source back to the cd drive rather than the temporary hard disk files. It might be worth trying this before you reformat your hard disk.

jval, what you are describing is a non standard protocol in the controller either with the motherboard or the peripheral. Its a machine language problem. Toshiba used non standard protocols in their FDC on the laptops and folks found that floppies formatted on the toshiba often were not readable in a pc. Cost them a major class action and one of the few class actions where we all got a substantial settlement. Compatablity of components is crucial. just because its on the shelf and marked for use in a PC doesn't mean all the parts will like each other, especially the proprietary components. Driver conflict is also an issue when it comes to dvd's and the like. Good luck. Kaom, formatting is drastic, but reliable. Sometimes a good registry cleaner like Norton Windoctor or Clean sweep can fix these problems. If you reformatted and all is well then your machine language and drivers are ok (though the order in which drivers are loaded can sometimes effect the performance of a machine.) Try working with the registry first before reformatting.

Thanks Eric. I am aware of the difficulty you mentioned and it may or may not be our particular problem- I don't know. As our machines are IBM ThinkPad notebooks we don't get much choice in these peripherals- they're built-in. But regardless of the reason the procedure I mentioned has solved the problem for us. It definitely was preferable to reformatting the hard disk (grin).

Ah, I tend to trust IBM in putting together compatable componants. Good for you. I hate the fdisk thingie. No matter how hard I try, I always forget something, like my address book. LOL.