DirectX 9.0b won't install on Windows ME

Each time I try to install DirectX 9.0b, it says the install was
successful but after I restart and then run dxdiag, it still says I have
DirectX 8.1 installed. There are no error messages in the file Windows
Update.log. I always disable my antivirus while downloading updates
from WU. Using Google has yielded no obvious solutions for this
problem.

I even tried to install the newer DirectX 9.0c by downloading it and
installing manually. That didn't work either but gave the error "a
cabinet file necessary for installation cannot be trusted". The only
results I could find on Google for that error related to Windows XP but
not ME.

Can anyone help with this?

Thank you,
Nevans

I'm having the same problem not what to do about this.

"Nevans" wrote:

> Each time I try to install DirectX 9.0b, it says the install was
> successful but after I restart and then run dxdiag, it still says I have
> DirectX 8.1 installed. There are no error messages in the file Windows
> Update.log. I always disable my antivirus while downloading updates
> from WU. Using Google has yielded no obvious solutions for this
> problem.
>
> I even tried to install the newer DirectX 9.0c by downloading it and
> installing manually. That didn't work either but gave the error "a
> cabinet file necessary for installation cannot be trusted". The only
> results I could find on Google for that error related to Windows XP but
> not ME.
>
> Can anyone help with this?
>
> Thank you,
> Nevans
>

In October, I found a thread on alt.windows-me that recommended
downloading/installing the full, redistributable version of DirectX
instead of the smaller webupdate version. I downloaded the DX 9.0c
redistributable from Microsoft (approx. 34 MB), ran it offline and now
have 9.0c on my PC.

The following issue may not happen to you but, just in case, I'll share
my experience.

When I ran dxdiag after installing 9.0c, it indicated that an input
device registry key was missing:

Input Devices
Poll w/ Interrupt: Yes
Registry: Errors found:
Key 'HKCR\CLSID\{92187326-72B4-11d0-A1AC-0000F8026977}\ProgID' is
missing.

A Google search for the solution found the cause and fix in an old
Windows Magazine article from 2001 which showed what to add to the
registry to fix the error. The article can be found at
http://www.techweb.com/winmag/column...03.htm?print=1
and the fix is to create/run a .reg file like the following (I bet it
wraps badly but here it is):

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{9218732 6-72B4-11d0-A1AC-0000F8026977}\ProgID]
@="Game Controllers CPL Handler"

Hopefully you won't have this problem (in my case, the key is removed
each time I run Microsoft's REGCLEAN and I have to add the key back.)
I'm not sure but the value "Game Controllers CPL Handler" may be
different if you are running a non-English version of Windows. (I know
it's in German for the German version of Windows.)

Nevans

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 16:13:01 -0800, medico wrote in
<news:F0AD69F5-1AB5-4BFF-A431->:

> I'm having the same problem not what to do about this.
>
> "Nevans" wrote:
>
>> Each time I try to install DirectX 9.0b, it says the install was
>> successful but after I restart and then run dxdiag, it still says I have
>> DirectX 8.1 installed. There are no error messages in the file Windows
>> Update.log. I always disable my antivirus while downloading updates
>> from WU. Using Google has yielded no obvious solutions for this
>> problem.
>>
>> I even tried to install the newer DirectX 9.0c by downloading it and
>> installing manually. That didn't work either but gave the error "a
>> cabinet file necessary for installation cannot be trusted". The only
>> results I could find on Google for that error related to Windows XP but
>> not ME.