Can't open my eLearn cd

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Can't open my eLearn cd

im a little drink, but
right click to get this menu
click propoties n so on, if you want i can do remote assitance, and have a go, but i would reccomend a more sover person do it
 

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Remember that eLearn was never intended to be released to the general public.

There are, in effect, two components of the CD. One is the eLearn program, the other the data for your particular car.

I'm guessing that D is your CD/DVD drive.

Open up D in "My Computer". There will be an executable on the CD (an .exe file, although, for reasons of utter stupidity, Microsoft never show the file extensions) still, it will have a relatively easy to guess icon. If you're lucky, double clicking on this should install the eLearn program (but not the data for your car) on the pooter. You may find you have to use compatability mode.

My guess is that later eLearns actually come with a program written to run on post 95 versions of Windows.
 
Your CD drive is probably set up to autorun, so each time you shut the drawer it will try to run. If Win7 does not like this it will seize up every time.

First, disable your antivirus.
Then as you insert the CD and close the drawer, hold the Shift key, and keep it held until the CD has spun up and settled to quiet. Holding the Shift prevents the autorun.

Now open Explorer and click on the CD drive. You should see something like the pic below.

Double-click on Setup.exe and see if this works.

Edit: More thoughts.
Your virus program will often see any installation as potentially harmful and may block certain operations, without telling you or giving you the option to accept.
When I insert a CD, my virus program automatically checks it for viruses, using almost all of the processor power, giving the appearance of a freeze. It does put up an icon in the system tray that i can right-click and tell it to stop.
Once installed, again the virus program can block some actions, especially as eLearn uses a browser as a shell. The virus prog should show a log of blocked operations and hopefully with an option to overrule it for next time. May have to try to install, allow an operation, try again, and repeat until it works.

(I mainly use BitDefender. On one machine I had Kaspersky, (Free if you online bank with Barclays) that was more forgiving.)
 

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Your CD drive is probably set up to autorun, so each time you shut the drawer it will try to run. If Win7 does not like this it will seize up every time.

First, disable your antivirus.
Then as you insert the CD and close the drawer, hold the Shift key, and keep it held until the CD has spun up and settled to quiet. Holding the Shift prevents the autorun.

Now open Explorer and click on the CD drive. You should see something like the pic below.

Double-click on Setup.exe and see if this works.

Edit: More thoughts.
Your virus program will often see any installation as potentially harmful and may block certain operations, without telling you or giving you the option to accept.
When I insert a CD, my virus program automatically checks it for viruses, using almost all of the processor power, giving the appearance of a freeze. It does put up an icon in the system tray that i can right-click and tell it to stop.
Once installed, again the virus program can block some actions, especially as eLearn uses a browser as a shell. The virus prog should show a log of blocked operations and hopefully with an option to overrule it for next time. May have to try to install, allow an operation, try again, and repeat until it works.

(I mainly use BitDefender. On one machine I had Kaspersky, (Free if you online bank with Barclays) that was more forgiving.)

and there was no point in me going all the way over here to post this if you were going to help me anyway... :D
 
and there was no point in me going all the way over here to post this if you were going to help me anyway... :D

I've read this several times, but don't understand what it says. Am I being thick?

Was there something more you expected? Or have I said something wrong? My apologies if I have.

Has it worked?
Did you get the alternator changed?
 
I've read this several times, but don't understand what it says. Am I being thick?

Was there something more you expected? Or have I said something wrong? My apologies if I have.

Has it worked?
Did you get the alternator changed?
OMG no I meant it the other way round, we were talking about the elearn cd on my other post in the Multi forum then I jumped over here and you came along to answer me here, just funny as we could have just carried on talking there...

That's all, sorry to confuse you, I confuse myself sometimes too... :rolleyes:


so alternator has, since the recent flooding, been behaving a whole lot better... I've got the replacement and tools ready may look at replacing it if there is a nice sunny day sometime soon or may leave it til it misbehaves again (which it no doubt will)
 
Got it. makes sense of course.

To further mix threads, just the brakes to diagnose then.

Good luck with it all.

Great! Was just gonna send you a message to explain would hate for you to think I would get grumpy over being given help and advise.. lol and since you have more or less diagnosed my entire car I think it would be rather rude of me to be ungrateful...

Anyway yes brakes still need fixing, but a small victory in that atrea is that the de rusting of the sensors I did resulted in I can now have the N/s/f sensor connected again.. (y)
 
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