[Tasuki]

Originally Posted by 3monkeys »

NT6x will likely not install if you don't already have Dot Net 2.0. Your problem is probably more database related, try re installing MDAC : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
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Monkey, thanks for the link. I went to the site, but it's a Microsoft website, so of course it's completely confusing. If I may, I'd like to ask a couple of questions:

1) What's the relationship between MDAC and this dot NET thing? Are they the same thing, or unrelated?

2) On that website link, where's the download page?

3) When I click on the "Validation" button, I get a Security Warning, which asks if I want to install and run "Windos Genuine Advantage". Generally speaking, I don't want anything from Microsoft that I don't absolutely need. Do you know what this "Genuine Advantage" is all about?


4) What does "validation" have to do with the software I apparently need to run Ninjatrader?


Sorry for the sophmoric questions, but my natural hatred of Microsoft is "validated" (pun intended) when I see them throwing curve balls at me. All I want is the bloody download of whatever software Ninjatrader requires.

Thanks in advance, Taz

[Sparrow]

Ninjatrader stores data in a database, the mdac is for interfacing with that database.

If you don't want to go through the whole process you can find the file on one of the ftp mirrors here, i'd suggest the edu.

Of course files from unoffical sources might contain viruses and maybe it's not even what you are looking for.

The MS genuine advantage is some sort of anti piracy thing, I've never used it myself.

Hope you'll solve your problems this way.

[Tasuki]

Originally Posted by Sparrow »

Of course files from unoffical sources might contain viruses and maybe it's not even what you are looking for.

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Geez, Sparrow, I really appreciate the help, but some of those mirror sites contain the word "Russian". Given the terrible viruses that are coming out of Russia, I'd be too scared to play with them.

Out of general interest, what is the relationship between MDAC and the "Dot NET version 2 ??? Are they two names for the same thing, or completely unrelated, or interconnected somehow? Needless to say, Microsoft isn't going to provide any tech support for such questions.

[Sparrow]

Taz, they're two different things. About the russian thing, in the best case your program will display russian error messages if there is a problem , in the worst who knows what.

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