trouble running inquisit session in medialab (case 4905)

[jarvis24]

Thanks to the users who sent us their MediaLab+Inquisit folders to play with. We think it has something to do with Inquisit 3 and the way MediaLab calls Inquisit sessions. It used to be that MediaLab could automatically detect the location of Inquisit.exe, but now it can't--this results in the file not found error. I think it has something to do with registry entries that are made during the Inquisit 3 installation. Consequently, the version of MediaLab you have probably won’t make any difference. I just emailed Sean Draine and he said he would look into it and see if he can find a fix. As I mentioned above, he's usually pretty quick to take care of stuff like this once we figure out what's going on.

[jarvis24]

Here is a temporary fix offered by Sean. I just tried it and it seems to work--thanks Sean!

You should be able to work around this problem by adding the Inquisit program folder to the system PATH variable. Specifically, do the following:

1. Right click the My Computer and select Properties
2. Click the Advanced Tab
3. Click the Environment Variables button
4. Scroll down through the System Variables list until you see Path
5. Double click the Path variable to edit it
6. Append the following to the end of the variable value (Important: do not delete the existing value--just add the following!!)

   ;C:\Program Files\Millisecond Software\Inquisit 3

7. Note: If you've installed Inquisit to another drive (e.g., D, E, F, ...), then replace C with your drive letter.
8. If you have Media Lab running, shut it down and restart it so that picks up the new path value. At that point, it should be able to locate the Inquisit.exe file from this point on.

[MatthewHunsinger]

The path modification worked! Many thanks to both of you for finding this solution.

[jarvis24]

Glad to hear it did the trick.

[shooklab]

[edited by moderator]

We were having the same issue with our experiment. We configured the path for the hotfix as stated above, but came up with the same problem. We seem to have discovered the answer! Here are our steps to solving the issue.

1. Use the hotfix as offered in the above posts (changing path file)
2. Make sure the Medialab experiment containing Inquisit is saved as a questionnaire.
3. In the questionnaire make sure the Inquisit sessions is loaded as such, along with the new path directory.
4. Move all files associated (such as Jpegs, word documents) to that directory as stated in the hotfix (such as C:\ProgramFiles\Millisecond Software\Inquisit 3\suchandsuch.jpg)

Hope this helps, I'm not sure how it wasn't working before. Thanks.

[jarvis24]

Thanks for the update!

[lalani98]

I just came across this issue with ML2010 running on Windows 7. The fix worked (changing the 'Path'). This might be useful to users thinking that a fix from 2008 might no longer be relevant.