Hi Laurence
I do pop on and have a read of the forums and I don't just post computer problems, honest
It's a long story and I've tried lots of things and the error message is still coming up.
I have Windows XP and Kaspersky.
My son decided to download a demo game and with this game it wouldn't let him download unless he agreed to downloading STEAM, which apparently allows downloads of games more easily.
He set it all up yesterday and it played fine and computer was fine but it was only today when the computer had been off and restarted it came up with the following error:-
MOM.EXE _.NET Framework Initialization Error
To run this application you must first install one of the following versions
of the .NET Framework v2.0.50727
screenshot:-
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=7x8hijr&s=1
With the error appeared a box called Steam and I just closed this box.
The game he downloaded was from here:-
http://videogames.yahoo.com/pc/enemy...rs/file-529579
I checked online and came up with this page about the error:-
http://www.file.net/process/mom.exe.html
which said it was a catalyst control center: monitoring programe by ATI
Technologies Inc (
www.ati.com).
I've searched ati.com and can't find out anything but I checked Add/Remove
programmes and I've got there four things for ati:-
ATI Software uninstall utility
ATI AVIVO codecs
ATI Catalyst control center
ATI Display driver
I don't know if we put ATI on our computer or if it came with the gubbings in the computer
I've looked at the add and remove programmes and have the following there:-
Microsoft .NET framework 1.1
Microsoft .NET framework 1.1 Hotfix (kb928366)
I've tried a couple of things but the error is still there:-
Uninstalled from add/remove programmes the game.
Uninstalled from add/remove programmes steam.
Searched to see if any of the above was left and deleted a few folders left in search.
Searched to see if anything was left for Steam and there is (screenshot)
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=6s9v8f5&s=1
but ... I don't know what I can delete and what I can't on this.
I just tried putting these items (steam) in bin without emptying it and did a restart but the error still appeared, so I've restored them just in case.
I've also done a system restore to prior my son downloading this demo and steam, did a restart and the error is still there but I'm not getting the steam box come up.
I'm stumped now ... the computer seems to be okay and has been working fine but this error shouldn't appear.
Please can you tell me how to fix this ...
Should I delete the items left by steam and will that fix the problem (all bar one seems to be in ati support and one is a pretech?
Should I download the version that .net framework wants? It didn't want it before this game was downloaded and I wouldn't know where to find it and if I should download it.
This error didn't appear until after my son downloading this game and he's now been told that he is NEVER to download another demo game ever. I have to take some of the blame because I initially said no then changed my mind.
I'm online for a little longer but will check back tomorrow when I'm hoping that Laurence aka
has sorted this out for me. (did I mention how clever he is and charming
)
Thanks
Octopia