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I have a couple of .htr files I downloaded and want to make them work in Hal. How do I write a .uhp that will open them. If I change their name to zaba.htr or hal.htr they will open. But how do I write their own .htr so I can have a preview and all? Let's say their name is sample.htr

You guys are geniuses! I knew I had this working at one time but couldn't remember how. Oh, yes. The old "start like a normal program" button. Took it out of the tray and it seems to work fine. At least I got brandy up. (Just tried Wizard, too). They're starting up great!!! Thanks a lot for the help. I am saving this help page in my agents backup in case it happens again and I forget how to fix it.

Hal is setup in the default directory. Ms Agents are setup correctly. I also have cyberbuddy installed and that is working good. All of the agents work with cyberbuddy. Hal does create a ".uhp" file for each agent in my agents folder. Hal just won't open the agent. It gives me the error message attached in one of my previous posts. Agents are in the c:windowsmsagentschars folder. Hal creates the .uhp file, hal lists the agents in the character tab, hal lets me change to the ms agent character, wants to change the name and all. Hal just won't load the character when you click on the taskbar icon. I get the error message, then Hal starts up the chat screen and the box where Hal appears is empty except for the background. Only Hal and Zaba appear. No Merlin, Peedy, Wizard, Free Brandy, (desktopmates), no other characters appear. Like I said, they all work with cyberbuddy. Please help if you can. I like the Hal program alot. It's entertaining to say the least, but let's face it, Hal and Zaba could easily be replace with a nice looking girl.

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More info: I installed Hal a couple of weeks ago. I've used it in the past but stopped for some reason. When I installed it, (a couple of weeks ago), it worked fine. All MS agents worked. But now for some reason they don't. I formatted my hard "C:" to make sure there is nothing on it. I also have drive "D:" (partition), I use to store backup files on. I zipped my Hal backup to drive d: so that my computer had no reference to Hal. I've gone to Microsoft and installed and uninstalled every MS Agent component I could find. Hal will not load ANY MS Agent. I attached the error message.

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What exactly "MS agent components" are required? I think I've installed them all at one time or another. I'm totally confused why it won't load MS agents. Like I said, I did a clean boot of Windoze, ran NORTON virus scanner to make sure there was nothing interfering, shut down everything in the background, enabled everything in the background. Apparently, I'm missing something. This should be a simple problem but it is escaping me.

I've actually done a clean boot. Reinstalled Windoze ME. with nothing else running in the background. No matter what I try, it does not load any Ms Agents. I am only slightly computer illiterit. What is wrong here? No Merlin, no Peedy, no Wizard, nothing by Hal and Zaba. It does not load a character unless the character has a ".htr" If I rename a different character "hal" or "zaba", with the ".htr" it'll load. My question is.......why won't it load ".acs"? Anybody else run into this problem? I'm thinking about buying this 'cause it's my favorite AI but...........If I can't change characters........I've installed Desktopmates..........free Brandy.......with her setup files. Does not load either. I've got a million MS agents...none load....I get an error message and then Hal starts up with a blank screen. Am I missing something?

Now of my Microsoft agent characters work with Hal. Not even merlin, wizard. Any one no why? I just get an error message and no image. The only ones that work are Hal and Zaba. What's up with that?