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NOAH'S ARKIVE
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Noah's Arkive images are for educational, nonprofit use in face-to-face instruction, or for use in the preparation of audio-visual materials which will be used on your campus only. Duplication is authorized for use on your campus only. These materials may not be used in any publication without the written consent of the original producer and the International Veterinary Pathology Slide Bank (Noah's Arkive).

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« Retired Application Information

Noah's Arkive Edition 9 was permanently retired October 2010. It was the last distributed version of Noah's Arkive. No further distributed editions of the archive are planned.

Noah's Arkive is now a web-based service, and is no longer distributed in DVD subsets. Support for Noah's Arkive Editon 9 will end December 31, 2010. We encourage you to consider adopting the new web-based service.

« Retired Application Support FAQ

In this section:

System Requirements | Troubleshooting

« System Requirements

« Q: On which OS's does the old distributed version of Noah's Arkive run?

A: The viewer software of last distributed version of the Noah's Arkive only ran on older versions of the Windows® operating system. These included: Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.  It did not run on Windows Vista®, Windows 7, or Mac OS X.

« Q: How can I use the old distributed version of Noah's Arkive on an unsupported OS?

A: The current version of Noah's Arkive is an OS-independent web-based service. We encourage you to consider adopting the new web-based service.

« Viewer Troubleshooting

« Q: When trying to install the old distributed version of Noah's Arkive, I am getting version conflict and error alerts. What do I do?

A: This answer is presented in two parts:

Part I

During setup, you may be prompted that a file being installed is older than the one on your computer. This is known as a "Version Conflict". If this happens, always select "Yes" to keep the newer file.

Example Version Conflict dialog box.

Example Version Conflict dialog box


Part II

If you get an error message saying that there is a problem installing or registering a particular file, select "Ignore" to proceed with the installation.  (Several of the files are specific for a particular version of the Windows operating system and will be irrelevant to your system.)

Example Registration Error dialog box.

Example Registration Error dialog box.


Note that if you select "Abort", the entire installation process will undo itself resulting in no software being installed.

 

« Q: When I try to browse the images in the old viewer software, I am getting an error message. How can I fix this?

A: If the error looks like the one below:

Example Class not Registered alert box.

Example Class not Registered alert box.


  1. First note the name of the file(s) located in the following directory: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DAO\ on your computer. It should be something like either dao350.dll or dao360.dll.
  2. Then copy the bold text below (Use the line that matches the name of the file you found in Step 1) to the clipboard:

    regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DAO\dao350.dll"
     
    OR
     
    regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DAO\dao360.dll"
     
  3. Open your Windows Start Menu and click on "Run...".
  4. Paste the line that you coppied in Step 2 into the "Open:" field in the Run window, and click "OK".
  5. You may need to restart your computer for the change to take effect.
  6. Relaunch the Noah viewer software.

For further information on this issue, see the official Microsoft Support article at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288706.

 

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Mac and Mac OS are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

 

Last Updated September 27, 2010