Thursday, October 25, 2007

Installing Channel 4 On-Demand (4oD)

For anyone else who is trying to install 4oD on Vista, this may help... I discovered what a PITA a simple app can be even though it says it officially supports Vista, you'd think channel 4 would put together a 3-step guide at least... anyway, in order to install 4oD successfully (I'm yet to actually play anything with it, so that'll be the next test) here's what I had to do..

You will need admin rights on your PC or you will need the username & password of an admin account to handle the UAC prompts
  1. Go to www.4od.com, get the installer, save it on your PC.
  2. Run command prompt as administrator
  3. You should already be at c:\windows\system32 - if not, then go there
  4. type in "regsvr32 vbscript.dll" without the quotes and wait for confirmation that it happened
  5. type in "regsvr32 jscript.dll" without the quotes and wait for confirmation that it happened
  6. You can now exit the command prompt
  7. Right-click the channel4_on_demand.exe that you downloaded, and Run as administrator.
  8. That should now install correctly
It's weird this... even though I'm logged in as a user with Administrator privileges (yeah yeah, I know I know, save it), and even though I got the UAC elevation prompt and clicked continue, I still couldn't install the app without right-click & run as administrator...

BTW, here are the errors I got which led me to this fix...

Error 2738. Could not access VBScript run time for custom action.

Error1920.Service KService (KService) failed to start. Verify you have
sufficient privelleges to start system services

Error 2739: Could not access JavaScript runtime for custom action

Good luck...

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posted by Bud @ 8:21 pm   3 comments

3 Comments:

At 01:05, Blogger Julian "An Ocean of Coin" Campbell said...

thanks so much for this! after hours of hunting i found a fix!! cheers!

 
At 19:52, Blogger Alan said...

Many thanks. I couldn't get the program uninstalled before, but this worked a treat.

 
At 11:59, Blogger Cush1465 said...

Followed yr instructions exactly but still got the "Error1920.Service KService (KService) failed to start. Verify you have
sufficient privelleges to start system services" message. I clicked ignore and it continued and placed the 4oD icon on my desktop as if it had installed. However If I try and run the program nothing happens.... How I hate Vista !

 

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