Hi upstage,

Sorry, I meant to post this link for you to update DirectX.
You *should* install DirectX 9.0 for those games to work.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx


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| Ta
| Tried that Cryptographic Services are running
| I tried SP2 last year (2004) and it crashed my machine so i`ve steered clear
| of it since my machine says i`m only running Direct X 8.1 at the moment with
| some errors on the drivers but how can i reinstall DX8!!!
|
|| "upstage" <upstage@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
|| news:BB3AC287-7AD3-414F-8902-B7242701D3EF@microsoft.com...
||| Tried to install Callof Duty 2 but the Direct 9 wont install. A message
||| comes
||| up which says A cabinet cannot be trusted and the INstallation fails
||| Any ideas greatfully received
||
|| Cryptographic Services may be disabled, try this out.
||
|| To get cryptographic services back up and running, firstly make sure you're
|| logged on as an administrator.
|| Go to Start
|| -> Control Panel
|| -->Admin Tools
|| ---> Services
|| ----> Scroll down until you find Cryptographic Services, double click it and
|| set the start up type to automatic and start the service.
||
|| You should also visit Windows Update and grab SP2 from there (I'm assuming
|| you don't already have it from CoD trying to install DX), which includes
|| DirectX 9.0 and a whole heap of other updates.
||
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|| Paul Smith,
|| Yeovil, UK.
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