Issue with QuickTime 7 and Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary CD-ROM

Symptoms

If QT7 is installed, CALD2 displays an error message when you open the CALD2 application. If you click Cancel then the program later displays a new error message when you click on a sound icon, and the program does not play the sound file.

Solution

You can fix the problem in the following way.

• First of all, create a new folder
• Download this file and save it into your new folder
• Extract or unzip the patch into this folder. You can do this by right-clicking on it and selecting Extract here
• Close CALD2
• Go into My computer
• Go into your hard drive, usually C drive.
• Open the folder called program files
• Open the Cambridge folder and/or cald2 folder
• Open the plugins folder.
• Remove all files in the plugin directory — i.e. the files:
  • npnul32.dll
  • npqtplugin2.dll
  • npqtplugin3.dll
  • npqtplugin4.dll
  • npqtplugin5.dll
  • npqtplugin6.dll
  • npqtplugin7.dll
  • npqtplugin.dll
  • QuickTimePlugin.class
• Copy the files that you unzipped earlier from our patch into the now empty plugin folder. After this operation the plugin directory should contain the following files:
  • npnul32.dll
  • npqtplugin2.dll
  • npqtplugin.dll
  • QuickTimePlugin.class

When you have made this change, CALD2 will open without any error message and you can play sound without receiving an error message.