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.

"Mayayana" on Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:41:46
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"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.

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pyotr filipivich
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