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Compton's (Zondervan) NIV Interactive Bible
 
Read, Experience, and Study the Bible.  Compton's Interactive Bible is a complete Bible with pictures and maps that you can view. It's based on the New International Version of the Bible. It's easy-to-use features makes it time conserving for you to use, simply install the CD and click away. Expand your knowledge about the religious history and the word of God through Compton's Interactive Bible. Whether you are studying the Bible or just exploring it, you can instantly access the resources you need. Easily search the Concordance, retrace events on the biblical timeline, reflect on inspirational commentary, and more. Even watch the Bible come to life with thousands of paintings, photographs, videos, and music clips. No other interactive Bible gives you so much information.
FAQs
bulletNo Sound
bullet Missing Names Be - Z in Topic Tree
bulletLocks Up On Registration
bullet Scrolling While Highlighting Text
bullet Words Cut Off When Printing From Journal
bulletSystem Requirements
bullet The Following Fonts Not Found...
bullet The TrueType Rasterize is Not Enabled
bulletBoosting Performance
bullet Cannot Find VIDS:CVID Decompressor
bullet Text is Illegible or Displays Incorrect Fonts
bulletProblems Reading CD
bullet Taskbar Obscures Buttons
bullet General Protection Fault in Module ???.DRV
bullet Videos Do Not Play - Windows 3.1
bullet How To: Uninstall Application
bullet Bindtime Error. VFLATDPRESENT ...
bulletOnline Link Not Working
bullet Install Completely to the Hard Drive
bullet -112 Unable To Decompress And Copy...
bullet Registration Does Not Complete
bullet Windows® 2000 Administrator Rights
Issue No Sound
Description No sound
Solution If no sound is being heard it may be due to the Microsoft Audio Codecs not being installed.
To install Microsoft Audio Codecs:
  1. Click Start, select Settings, then click on Control Panel.
  2. Double-click Add New Hardware.
  3. Click Next, No, and Next.
  4. Click Other Devices and Next.
  5. In the Left Window, click Microsoft Audio Codecs.
  6. In the Right Window, click Ima Adpcm Codec.
  7. Click Next and Finish.
  8. A window will appear with the message: Do you want to restart your computer now?
  9. Click Yes.
  10. After the system restarts try the application.
Issue Missing Names Be - Z in Topic Tree
Description When selecting People of the Bible, the names appear to be missing.
Solution When this issue occurs, look in the Nave’s Topical Bible, which lists names A-Z.
To do this:

Click the Find tool button.
Click the Down Arrow button at the end of the Look in box under the Table of Contents tab.
Click Nave’s Topical Bible from the drop down list. This will list names A-Z of people of the Bible
Issue Locks Up On Registration
Description If the modem is on a COM Port other than COM 2 the program may lock up while trying to access the modem.
Solution Solution 1:
Disable the registration by pressing this three key sequence - CTRL, SHIFT, and ENTER.

Solution 2:
Use this solution only if solution 1 does not work.

  1. Click Start, then click on Run.
  2. Type "C:\Program Files\Compton's Home Library\CIBNIV\cnm.ini" including the quotation marks and click OK or press Enter.
  3. The CNM.INI file should open in Notepad. Look for a section named [Registration]. Under that line look for:
    Disable=0
  4.  Click at the end of this line and press backspace once.
  5. Type the number one. This line should now read:
    Disable=1
  6. Close Notepad by clicking on the X at the top right.
  7. Click Yes to save the changes.
  8. Give the application another try.
Issue Scrolling While Highlighting Text
Description  
Solution This procedure requires that the CTRL key and the down arrow key be pressed while highlighting.
With the left hand, hold down the (CTRL) key and the (Down arrow) key while highlighting the text with the mouse.
Issue Words Cut Off When Printing From Journal
Description
Solution When the words are getting cut off when printing from the journal, copy the text to a word processor and print.
  1. Highlight the text that is wanted. If more than the text that is in the viewer is wanted, hold down the CTRL and down arrow key while still highlighting the text.
  2. Once the text is highlighted, click the icon in the upper-left corner of the window where the text is located. A drop down menu should appear and provide an option to select Copy Text.
  3. Open the word processor.
  4. Click Edit and select Paste. The article should now appear.
  5. Click File and Print.
Issue System Requirements
Description In order to install and operate this application successfully it is important that the computer system meet the minimum requirements. Keep in mind that these are minimum requirements. The software will run at the minimum but it may operate very slow.
Solution
bullet486 DX2 66 MHz
bulletWindows 95 or Windows NT 3.5
bulletCDROM drive
bullet8 Mb RAM
bulletVideo: 640x480 with 8-bit color (256 colors)
bulletMouse
bulletOne WAVE device capable of 8-bit Mono at 22.050 kHz
bulletVideo for Windows 1.10e
bulletTrue Type Rasterizer enabled
bulletFonts: MS Sans Serif, MS Serif
bulletTrue Type Fonts: Arial, Times New Roman, Symbol
Issue The Following Fonts Not Found...
Description The application requires that certain fonts be present on the system to display text correctly. If the program is unable to find the fonts it needs, some text may display poorly or in unreadable fonts.
To correct this issue, make a note of the missing font or fonts listed and exit the application.
Solution Windows 95/98/NT
 
  1. Click Start, select Settings, then click on Control Panel.
  2. Double-click the Fonts folder.
  3. Click File and Install New Font.
  4. Browse to the \WINDOWS\Fonts directory. A list of available fonts should appear.
  5. Click the font that was listed as missing in the error message received.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Exit Fonts and Control Panel.

If no list of fonts appears in \WINDOWS\FONTS, do a search for files ending in TTF for the correct directory location.

Windows 3.1

  1. Double-click the Control Panel icon located in the Main group.
  2. Double-click the Fonts icon.
  3. Click the Add button.
  4. Browse to the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. A list of available fonts should appear.
  5. Click the font that was listed as missing in the error message received.
  6. Click OK and Close.

If no list of fonts appears in \WINDOWS\SYSTEM, do a search for files ending in TTF for the correct directory location.

Issue The TrueType Rasterize is Not Enabled
Description This error will only occur with Windows 3.1 when the TrueType fonts have not been enabled.
Solution This error will only occur with Windows 3.1 when the TrueType fonts have not been enabled.
 
  1. Exit Compton's Interactive Bible NIV.
  2. Double-click the Control Panel icon located in the Main group.
  3. Double-click the Fonts icon.
  4. Click the TrueType button.
  5. Click the check box for Enable TrueType Fonts to place an X in the box.
  6. Show Only TrueType Fonts in Applications should NOT be checked.
  7. Click OK.
  8. Exit Fonts and Control Panel and restart Windows for the change to take affect.
Issue Boosting Performance
Description
Solution While it is possible to run the program directly from the CD, performance will be sluggish because of the CD-ROM access time. The program runs best when installed on a hard drive using the Medium or Large installation setting.

It is also possible to boost performance by turning off the button sounds. To do this:
 
  1. With Compton's Interactive Bible open, click the Menu button at the top.
  2. Click Preferences.
  3. Click the tab labeled Sound & Media.
  4. Remove the checkmark from the Play sounds when buttons are clicked checkbox.
Issue Cannot Find VIDS:CVID Decompressor
Description Cannot Find VIDS:CVID Decompressor
This error will occur when trying to play movies.
Solution To correct this issue:
 
  1. Click Start, select Settings, then click on Control Panel.
  2. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.
  3. Click the tab labeled Windows Setup.
  4. Scroll down the list to Multimedia and double-click. A new list will appear.
  5. Scroll to Video Compression.
  6. Place a check in the box.
  7. Click OK and OK.
  8. Restart Windows.
Issue Text is Illegible or Displays Incorrect Fonts
Description Certain Lotus or IBM products, such as Lotus Wordpro, install a font that interferes with the fonts used by Windows 95. This issue can be resolved by removing the Monotype Sorts Font version 2.0 from the system
Solution To correct this issue:
 
  1. Click Start, select Settings, then click on Control Panel.
  2. Double-click the Fonts icon.
  3. Look for the font labeled Monotype Sorts Font (sometimes listed as
    Mtsorts_.ttf).
  4. Right-click the font and select Delete to remove the font.
  5. Exit Fonts and Control Panel.
Issue Problems Reading CD
Description If there are issues with the CD-ROM performance, the issue may be solved by adjusting the cache settings on the CD-ROM drive.
Solution
  1. Click Start, select Settings, then click on Control Panel.
  2. Double-click the System icon.
  3. Select the tab labeled Performance.
  4. File System and Virtual Memory should both indicate 32-bit. Click the File System button.
  5. Click the tab labeled CD-ROM.
  6. Move the slider for Supplemental cache size all the
    way to Large.
  7. The contents of the Optimize access pattern for box should match the speed of the CD-ROM drive.
  8. Click OK and OK and exit Control Panel.
  9. Restart Windows.
Issue Taskbar Obscures Buttons
Description If the system has been set for the Start menu to be Always on Top, some of the program's buttons may be hidden.
Solution To correct this issue:
 
  1. Click Start, select Settings, then click on Taskbar.
  2. Deselect Auto Hide and Always on Top.
Issue General Protection Fault in Module ???.DRV
Description This error message is often related to the video driver being used by Windows.
Solution To correct this issue, change the display settings to 640x480, 256 colors. An alternative is to switch to using a Microsoft Super VGA video driver.

To change your display settings:
1) Right-click on any blank area on your desktop and select Properties.
2) Click on the Settings tab.
3) Click on the down arrow under colors and select 256 colors from the list.
4) Click on the down arrow under Screen Area and select 640 x 480 from the list.
5) Click Apply, then click OK.
Issue Videos Do Not Play - Windows 3.1
Description
Solution For the videos to play correctly, Video for Windows must be installed.
Compton's Interactive Bible NIV includes Video for Windows version 1.1e. To install:
 
  1. Click File and Run.
  2. Type D:\VFW11E\SETUP.EXE and press Enter. If the CD-ROM drive is a different letter, substitute as needed.
  3. Follow the instructions provided.
Issue How To: Uninstall Application
Description
Solution To remove the application under Windows 95/98/NT, use Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. With Windows 3.1, run Setup on the CD.
To uninstall Compton's Interactive Bible NIV:
Windows 95/98/NT
 
  1. Click Start, select Settings, then click on Control Panel.
  2. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.
  3. Select Compton's Interactive Bible from the list on the left.
  4. Click the Install/Uninstall button.
  5. Follow the instructions provided.

Uninstalling this application will not remove any files that have been created, such as bookmark lists or Presentations slide shows.

Windows 3.1

  1. Click File and Run.
  2. Type D:\SETUP and press Enter to begin running Setup.
  3. Select Uninstall the Bible and click Next.
  4. Follow the instructions provided.
Issue Bindtime Error. VFLATDPRESENT ...
Description This error will occur during installation and may result in the computer locking up. It is caused when portions of the program called Microsoft Test have been installed to the system by another application.
Solution The files involved can be safely deleted from the system. To do this:
  1. Click Start, select Find, then click on Files or Folders.
  2. Type MSCOMSTF.DLL in the Named line.
  3. For Look in, select the drive letter containing Windows (probably C:\)
  4. Click Find Now.
  5. Delete any files found.
  6. Repeat this process for the following files:

MSCPYDIS.DLL
MSCUISTF.DLL
MSDETSTF.DLL
MSINSSTR.DLL
MSSHLSTF.DLL
MSUILSTF.DLL
MSCPYDIS.INC
MSDETECT.INC

Issue Online Link Not Working
Description With the original release of Compton's Interactive Bible there was an Online feature available which offered direct access to the user's online service from within the application. This feature was used for research, to find updated information, contact fellow users, and more. The option is still available in the application but clicking the link no longer takes the user to the location described in Help.
Solution With the original release of Compton's Interactive Bible there was an Online feature available which offered direct access to the user's online service from within the application. This feature was used for research, to find updated information, contact fellow users, and more. The option is still available in the application but clicking the link no longer takes the user to the location described in Help.
Issue Install Completely to the Hard Drive
Description Install Completely to the Hard Drive
Solution Install Completely to the Hard Drive
With the large hard drives available today there are many that would like to install this application completely to the hard drive so that the CD is not required.
There is not an option available to install this application completely to the hard drive and it will not work correctly if copying everything from the CD to the hard drive. The CD will always be required in running this application.
Issue -112 Unable To Decompress And Copy...
Description This error will occur during the installation process and is due to an incorrect or missing line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
Solution To correct this issue, do the following:
  1. Click Start, select Programs, and click on Windows Explorer.
  2. Scroll down to the Windows directory and Double-click.
  3. Check to see if there is a sub-directory (folder) listed under Windows named TEMP.
  4. If there is a sub-directory named TEMP, close Windows Explorer. Continue with Step 7. If there is no TEMP sub-directory, click File, New, and Folder.
  5. Type TEMP and press Enter.
  6. Exit Windows Explorer.
  7. Click Start, then click on Run.
  8. Type SYSEDIT and click OK. This will open the System Editor with a number of files.
  9. Select the AUTOEXEC.BAT.
  10. If there is already a SET TEMP= line listed, change the path listed to C:\WINDOWS\TEMP. Continue with Step
  11. If there is not a SET TEMP= line listed, add a new line by typing SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
  12. Press Enter.
  13. Click file and Exit.
  14. Click YES to save the changes.
  15. Restart the computer for the change to take affect.
  16. Give the installation another try.
Issue Registration Does Not Complete
Description This product is a fairly old product and has not been updated since 1996. It is not uncommon for the registration process to fail on the newer systems being used today.
Solution When the registration process fails we can register the application for you manually. In order to do so we need your complete name, address, and phone number along with information on the operating system being used (Windows 95/98/NT/2000). Please send this information to us by sending an e-mail to help@tlcsupport.com. Please be sure to include the exact program title and version number.
Issue Windows® 2000 Administrator Rights
Description If anyone is having probs using any of our programs on Win2000, the first questions to ask is: Are you logged on as Adminisrtator? If not try to get them to log on as the administrator. If they no longer have the original problem under administrator, they do not have the approprate rights.
Solution To change the rights that one specific file and/or program is run under, follow the steps below:
 
  1. While logged on as the Administrator, double click the "My Computer" icon on the desktop.
  2. Double click on the C:\ drive
  3. Find the Folder of the program in question
  4. Right Click the *.exe icon, and scroll to "create shortcut"
  5. Now a shortcut should be created in the same directory (will have the small arrow in the upper left corner)
  6. On that shortcut, right click and scroll to the Properties entry on the context menu that appears.
  7. On the shortcut tab, select "run as a different user", then click apply
  8. Log on as a different user- in this case test
  9. Double-click on "my computer"
  10. Double-click on the C:\ drive
  11. Double-click on the appropriate program folder
  12. Click on and drag the shortcut that was created in step 4 to the desktop.
Downloads
 
System Requirements
Win
Platform: Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.5 
CPU: 486 DX2 66 MHz
Hard Disk:  
RAM: 8MB
CD-ROM: yes
Monitor: SVGA, 640x480, 256 color
Sound Card: One WAVE device capable of 8-bit Mono at 22.050 kHz
Optional: none
Other: True Type Rasterizer enabled
Fonts: MS Sans Serif, MS Serif
True Type Fonts: Arial, Times New Roman, Symbol
Video for Windows 1.10e
Mouse, Speakers
 

 



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