Chat and Kill/Death notices

[birminghamWILDCAT]

I have had this problem start up on me spontaneously. I first got Halo and Halo CE soon after I bought my laptop in December. I have Windows 7 and everything ran fine. After about a month of not playing I started playing again and now suddenly I cannot chat, nor does anything whatsoever show up where the chat and You killed SoandSo would show up. I tried the redist download fix so often suggested and still nothing. Any suggestions?

[Timo]

Try running a file in your Halo CE\redist folder called something along the lines of msxlenu.msi (I haven't had Halo CE installed in a long time).

[birminghamWILDCAT]

I did that and it ran and still nothing

[ThePlague]

Make sure you run as an administrator.

[jcap]

Try installing the latest DirectX redist: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

[chrisk123999]

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?nid=268

[Rook]

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?nid=268

The article is just a bit outdated. When it says get latest updates and links to 1.08, make sure you actually get 1.09.

[birminghamWILDCAT]

Ok folks let me walk you through what I've got.
Windows 7 32 bit OS
HP C61 Laptop
Halo CE 1.09 and Halo 1.09
I ran the Direct X Update. Thanks because I didn't know mine was already outdated but it didn't fix my issue.
This is my laptop. I have the only administrator/owner account and my mother has the regular admin account (which can be overridden by me, of course)
When I run the msxlmemu.exe file in C/Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Halo Custom Edition\redist, the following window pops up: "Welcome to the MSXML 4.0 SP2 Parser and SDK Setup Wizard".
I click next and then three buttons: "Modify" "Repair" and "Remove". I have done both Repair and Modify.
I finish the wizard and open Halo CE and still nothing.

[birminghamWILDCAT]

I downloaded and ran the 1.09patcher and it told me I already have 1.09 and that this program is for patching versions 1.00-1.08. Then it runs halo update and it tells me my game is up to date.

[Con]

What sort of msxml files do you have in your C:\Windows\System32 folder?
I have:
msxml3.dll (1833 kb)
msxml3r.dll (2 kb)
msxml6.dll (1953 kb)
msxml6r.dll (2 kb)