totally lost - macro shell is not available

I've read several posts on several support pages, and have no idea what to do.  Initially, I downloaded/ installed winCVS without either TCL or Python, because the install indicated they were both optional. 

Then I needed to resurrect a file that was removed with a cvs remove.  And a post somewhere said that Python had a macro.  

So I downloaded and installed Python - did not fix it.
So I downloaded and installed TCL - did not fix it.   

Python32 build 216.1 
ActiveState ActiveTcl .5.11.0.295402 Nov 07, 2011  (from readme.txt)
WinCVS 2.1.1.1 build 1

WindowsXP PRO SP3

I did a pretty good job of stumbling through the intial install of WinCVS, so I have several directories in Program Files:
CVS Suite
CVSNT
GNU (this is the folder where my shortcut takes me and it what is referenced above)




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