Macroquest won't stay in my system tray

redeye93 · Post by **redeye93** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:49 am

So last night I ventured into trying to load macroquest onto my computer...I followed the post on how to compile and such using the stickied post with the free server. I run Windows XP and last night when I finished with all the unzips, I tried double-clicking on the resulting macroquest.exe. When I double-click it, it appears in my system tray, but when I run my mouse pointer over it, it disappears. I can spam double-click and open a milllion of them in the system tray but when I mouse over, they all go away. I can't seem to get it to stay up. Last night when I finished it all, I don't know what I did, but I was able to use it for that one session I tried. Came home from work today all excited to keep trying it out and now it won't stay in my system tray. Any ideas? Thanks guys!

aChallenged1 · Post by **aChallenged1** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:02 am

Item 1: I hope you were sure to look under the hidden section of your tray, as you are using XP and it can and does hide icons in SysTray if "idle" unless specifically set not to do so.

Compiling this software does not create macroquest.exe, it was there the whole time.

When you unzipped, did you use folders? If not kill it and try again.

Anyway, best advice to you is to frag the entire directory, leave nothing of it behind. Create the parent directory again and unzip the files into it again, making sure you have "Use Folder Names" checked. Run the MQ2Auth.exe, then compile per directions. Failure to run the MQ2Auth.exe will prevent it from working properly when compiled, heck it should prevent it from compiling.

Cr4zyb4rd · Post by **Cr4zyb4rd** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:48 am

when I finished with all the unzips

thousands of them?

redeye93 · Post by **redeye93** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:58 am

No there was only one file at a time but you zip and unzip a few times.

Okay, so I deleted all the files went through the process again. After following the instructions to the letter, Macroquest remained in the system tray! So I say to myself well it did that yesterday too! Let's test it! So i reboot my comp and head back to the folder containing the macroquest.exe, double-click, and guess what!?!?! It's doing the same thing again! /sigh

Am I missing something? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Hamner · Post by **Hamner** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:53 am

No there was only one file at a time but you zip and unzip a few times.

Color me confused.....exactly WHAT are you using to unzip it, and what steps? Never mind, go invest in Winrar. After installing it, dont muck with the settings and you can just right click and choose "Extract to MQ2-Latest\" the slash indicating it will extract to a folder named MQ2-Latest, in the same directory. If you saved it to c:\ , you will get a folder named c:\MQ2-Latest. Nested in that folder will be several folders and files.

Below is a "PARTIAL" list, does not include what is in the various sub folders.

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     Blech         
     Detours       
     dxsdk81       
     dxsdk90       
     MacroQuest    
     mkplugin      
     MQ2Bzsrch     
     MQ2Chat       
     MQ2ChatWnd    
     MQ2CustomBinds
     MQ2EQBugFix   
     MQ2EQIM       
     MQ2Ext        
     MQ2Fps        
     MQ2HUD        
     MQ2Irc        
     MQ2ItemDisplay
     MQ2Labels  
     MQ2Main    
     MQ2Map     
     mq2telnet  
     MQ2Template
     MQ2Tracking
     Release
     extra.mak
     global.mak
     macroquest2.dsw
     MacroQuest2.ncb
     MacroQuest2.nsi
     MacroQuest2.sln
     MacroQuest2.sln.old
     MacroQuest2.suo
     makefile
     makezip.bat
     mkplugin.exe
     MQ2-API.chm
     MQ2Auth.exe
     MQ2Plugin.h
     MQ2PluginDevelopment.html
     MQ2Setup.exe
     readme.chm 
     Setup.exe
     zipit.lst

After that, RTFM.......thats the readme listed above, btw

(In the FWIW department, anyone that is attempting to compile and use this utility, THIS kind of knowledge should be old hand.....hope yer wearin yer asbestos undies)

aChallenged1 · Post by **aChallenged1** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:48 pm

Do not attempt to unzip this with the built in Windows decompression tool, it doesn't do it properly. Get winzip, nothing to pay for, but after so many uses it will bug you before unziping to purchase it.

Either way, WinZip or RAR (which I really don't like) will work. I'm biased because I have had my WinZip registration for many years now.

Hamner · Post by **Hamner** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:53 pm

Agreed, some prefer Winzip, some Winrar, but all are agreed that the built in windows compression utils, frankly, sucks a$$. Other than that, I'm not going to argue the value of either one

JimJohnson · Post by **JimJohnson** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:21 pm

Never could get MQ to work with Winzip. always had errors on build, yet if i used WinRar on same zip complied perfectly.

Night Hawk · Post by **Night Hawk** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:23 pm

aChallenged1 wrote:Do not attempt to unzip this with the built in Windows decompression tool, it doesn't do it properly. Get winzip, nothing to pay for, but after so many uses it will bug you before unziping to purchase it.

Either way, WinZip or RAR (which I really don't like) will work. I'm biased because I have had my WinZip registration for many years now.

I dunno about not doing it properly, it's just a hell of a lot slower.

aChallenged1 · Post by **aChallenged1** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:28 pm

If you don't check the box for "Use Folder Names" WinZip won't extract correctly. Other than that, no reason it shouldn't work.

Night Hawk, I've read a few posts from people who tried it with the built in decompresser, it has been negative as far as I remember, and no positive remarks on it. Personally, I don't care for it and avoid it. Personal Choice, it's a wonderful thing.

dman · Post by **dman** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:36 pm

If its working properly some of the times and not others, have you tried disabling any virus software/adware products? I know some adware products will unload processes that try to attach to other processes in memory which is what MQ2 does. I haven't heard of this happening before but it does sound kinda like what may be happening.

It may also be an issue with winXP and some kinda security settings you have set up that disallow the type of memory usage that MQ2 does. I just think that if you got it to run once with the compile, you might want to look elsewhere on your system for a possible explanation of the problem.

hiipii · Post by **hiipii** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:40 am

Kind of offtopic but i use windows compression utility to unzip most things and it works just fine.

redeye93 · Post by **redeye93** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 6:44 pm

Thanks for all the input guys. After some more investigation, I found that I had a pretty bad virus that had wreaked havoc on my system. I decided to do a clean install and the first thing I loaded up was EQ and Macroquest before I went any further (Obviously video drivers and such were really first, but they were the first software hehe). Double-clicked on Macroquest and no more leaving the tray! Stayed right where it is supposed to be.

Ccronus · Post by **Ccronus** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:43 pm

That will teach you to download porn

redeye93 · Post by **redeye93** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:15 pm

Porn is good...No Anti-virus...bad