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- From: comjudi@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Judi Geistlinger)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: WPWin5.2 problem
- Message-ID: <C1J29M.IwC@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:31:56 GMT
- References: <sph0301.165.728146594@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- sph0301@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu writes:
-
- >Having exhausted the resources of the WP support group, let me try the
- >wisdom of the net...
-
- >I've been trying for a week to get WP for Windows 5.2 working on my home
- >PC. Version 5.1 worked fine. The new version installs without a hitch
- >but when I try to start the program all I get is a window saying "Error,
- >can't load shared code DLLs". I've reinstalled it four times already,
- >trying various things and the same error comes up. What's been tried
- >already:
- > 1. First install was an update from 5.1; next three installs
- > were from scratch after deleting all WP files.
- > 2. Tried both basic install and custom install
- > 3. Disk space, memory and resources are suficient (29Mb free,
- > 4700K free, 83% free respectively)
- > 4. wp{wp}.env file points to the correct directory for shared
- > files
- > 5. Both the main wp directory and the shared directory are in
- > the path
- > 6. Tried loading the shared code manually by running wpcdll.exe;
- > that worked okay but the program still wouldn't start.
- > 7. Varified the correct sizes/dates of the shared code dll files
- > with the WP support rep
- > 8. Tried installing the program on my work PC just in case one
- > of the diskettes was bad - no problem there.
-
- >I'm out of ideas and so is WP Support. Has anyone else encountered anything
- >like this? The PC is a 386 with 4Mb RAM. Another curious thing: the first
- >time through the install program it asked whether I wanted to modify the
- >autoexec file - since then I've never seen that question again even though
- >I restored autoexec to it's original state between each install.
-
- I believe the problem may be that the DLL files are in a directory not
- listed in your path statement. That would make sense since the installation
- would have modified your path in the autoexec file. Let me know if this
- works.
-
- Judi
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- Judi Geistlinger
- j-geistlinger@uiuc.edu
-