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speaking of "issues" - wordpad "unable to create new document"
"pyotr filipivich" wrote
| I did and I had. And it was all working fine up till Tuesday. | You never mentioned whether you tried Process Monitor (regmon/filemon) to see what files the EXE is looking for at startup. If there's no obvious problem there, another possible thing to try would be to use Process Explorer (or Depends would be better, if you can find a copy) to see what libraries the EXE loads on Vista. Then copy those files over to the program folder. When external DLLs are needed on Windows there's a search order for finding them. I think it starts with the program folder, then system32. I don't remember all the details offhand. But the point is that if MS changed the DLLs or the dependencies in Win7, you should be able to bypass the mixup by putting the Vista versions into the folder with wordpad.exe. Wordpad will then find those versions before looking to the system folder. |
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speaking of "issues" - wordpad "unable to create new document"
"Mayayana" on Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:41:46
-0400 typed in alt.windows7.general the following: "pyotr filipivich" wrote | I did and I had. And it was all working fine up till Tuesday. | You never mentioned whether you tried Process Monitor (regmon/filemon) to see what files the EXE I tried that - could make head or tails of what I saw. Right now, I'm in the midst of two other projects, and time is fleeting. is looking for at startup. If there's no obvious problem there, another possible thing to try would be to use Process Explorer (or Depends would be better, if you can find a copy) to see what libraries the EXE loads on Vista. Unfortunately, that laptop was stolen. Not good. Then copy those files over to the program folder. When external DLLs are needed on Windows there's a search order for finding them. I think it starts with the program folder, then system32. I don't remember all the details offhand. But the point is that if MS changed the DLLs or the dependencies in Win7, you should be able to bypass the mixup by putting the Vista versions into the folder with wordpad.exe. Wordpad will then find those versions before looking to the system folder. I think I may have all that. Thanks muchly. -- pyotr filipivich Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing? |
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