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Morgue[FLB]

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Level 10

19 years ago

Siversmith, I had a similar issue the other day at a friend's house, and this type of thing has happened to me before. Running a program (that you know works on other machines) has no discernable effect. Sometimes it doesn't even initialise a process (ie. cannot be found in the Task Manager).

The problem the other night occured with Process Explorer 10 from Sysinternals.

At times, programs not running properly is an indication that their requirements haven't been met. Perhaps a certain service pack hasn't been installed or a particular patch hasn't been applied. Maybe a DLL is missing or unregistered.

This is something that is somewhat difficult to pin down, but you can try run Dependancy Walker (attached).

As I say, this has happened to me on several occasions before, and I haven't maanged to solve the problem each time. Sometimes a reboot has helped (releasing particular locked resources).

Christo [PCD]

Site Administrator

Main Admin

19 years ago

Very nice tool Morgue. I checked the installer and it seems that MS Java is required. On my pc i have removed MS Java and installed SUN Java a few months back. Maybe Siversmith should check if JAVA is installed proprerly.

You might want to remove the Microsoft JVM, which Microsoft no longer supports, in favor of the more recent Sun Microsystems JVM. To remove the Microsoft JVM, perform the following steps:

From the Start menu, select Run.
Enter the command :

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection java.inf,UnInstall

to start the uninstall process. Click Yes to the confirmation, then select Reboot.
After the machine restarts, delete the following items:
the \%systemroot%\java folder
java.pnf from the \%systemroot%\inf folder
jview.exe and wjview.exe from the \%systemroot%\system32 folder
The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Java VM registry subkey
The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AdvancedOptions\JAVA_VM registry subkey (to remove the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) options)

Microsoft Java is now removed. You can download Sun's newer JVM for Windows at :

JAVA SOFTWARE MANUAL DOWNLOAD

Another nice utility is Ashampoo. Can be downloaded here >

You can get a free serial number and have a 30 day full working program. Try it out.

Siversmith[PCD]

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Level 10

19 years ago

I'll give those a bash!

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