This is just disgusting. [rant]

[jecook]

So, if you have installed Service Pack 2, there is a gotcha that will cause a program to not work anymore, typically due to the fact that when you install the program, two files won't register: cstext32.ocx, and cscmd32.ocx.

http://denvertax.com/TechSup/run-time-error-339.htm


This company wants to CHARGE YOU MONEY to fix this problem (which is really simple: get newer versions of the two files in question.)

This is stupid. I mean, You could do a google search, which will eventually get you to a spot where you can download the two files free of charge, and the executable will even offers to unzip them to the c:\windows\system32 directory for you, which is where XP lives on a default install.

You do still have to register them, I think, but that as simple as typing in regsvr32 CSText32.ocx and regsvr32 CSCmd32.ocx.

Amazing what some companies will do for money. ::shakes head sadly::


(x-posted here because I figure someone in this community might be going through the same hell that I just went through. )

Comments

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

FORTY-NINE FRIGGING DOLLARS?!?!?

Someone is smoking crack.

[jecook]

That's what I thought. For two files that total up to 252Kbytes (and that's disk space used, not the actual file size), including the executable which unzips them.

They need to hand the crack pipe to someone else. I think they've had enough.

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Pass it to me man, sounds like some good shit.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Dude, if you think there's any left...