v2.6a won't startup under XP

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Bertsky - 14 Jun 2004 20:24 GMT

This is an intermittent problem. Starting up FP by dbl-clicking the desktop icon displays the hourglass for a few seconds and then disappears. FP doesn't appear. Starting using Start....Run...C:\FPW26\FOXPROW.EXE displays the FOX splash screen and then hangs. Staring with a right click on the desktop icon and selecting "Run As..." with defaults yields the following error msg: "C:\DOCUME~1\Ab\LOCALS~1\Temp\. A temporary file needed for initialization could not be created or could not be written to. Make sure that the directory path exists, and disk space is available. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application". While intermittent, it happens more often than not. If I ever do get it started, it seems to startup fine from then on, until I restart XP.

In all cases when failing, Task Manager shows NTVDM.EXE, WOWEXEC.EXE and FOXPROW.EXE running. I have to kill NTVDM.EXE to unload it from memory. I have also tried running the runtime at this point and installing the runtime app. via setup and they fail, too. Thus, when failing, the development version, runtime and setup all fail.

I am the administrator on the system so this should not be a problem with rights. I suspect it has something to do with me deleting temp files in my Local Settings folder, although my cause and effect could be incorrect. The only other odd things happening are when restart that might be related are that I sometimes get response failures from DWWIN.EXE (Dr Watson) and MSTS.EXE when trying to shut down. FP started up and ran fine for 1 1/2 years until this arose.

I suspect this is a problem with NTVDM.EXE. I've not found and help with this in the KB or anywhere else. Can anyone elighten me???

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Rick Bean - 14 Jun 2004 22:18 GMT

You need to either use a CONFIG.FPW in your shortcut (desktop icon), or make sure the current user has full read/write access to the current Windows TEMP directory. e.g.
C:\FPW26\FOXPROW.EXE -cC:\FPW26\CONFIG.FPW
where:
CONFIG.FPW looks something like this:
BELL=OFF
CONFIRM=ON
help=c:\fpw26\foxhelp.dbf
MVCOUNT0
resource=c:\temp\foxuser
editwork=c:\temp
sortwork=c:\temp
progwork=c:\temp
_assist="c:\fpw26\catalog.app"
_foxdoc="c:\fpw26\foxdoc.exe"
_foxgraph="c:\fpw26\foxgraph.exe"
_gengraph="c:\fpw26\gengraph.prg"
_genmenu="c:\fpw26\genmenu.prg"
_genxtab="c:\genxtab.prg"
_startup="c:\fpw26\foxstart.app"
_transport="c:\fpw26\transprt.fxp"
_genscrn="c:\fpw26\genscrn.fxp"
path=c:\fpw26
defa=c:\fpw26
MEMLIMIT = 60, 2048, 16384
exclusive=off
CATMAN=OFF

Just make sure all users have read/write access to c:\temp and that the folder isn't maked HIDDEN or SYSTEM!

Rick

> This is an intermittent problem. Starting up FP by dbl-clicking the desktop icon displays the hourglass for a few seconds and then disappears. FP doesn't appear. Starting using Start....Run...C:\FPW26\FOXPROW.EXE displays the FOX splash screen and then hangs. Staring with a right click on the desktop icon and selecting "Run As..." with defaults yields the following error msg: "C:\DOCUME~1\Ab\LOCALS~1\Temp\. A temporary file needed for initialization could not be created or could not be written to. Make sure that the directory path exists, and disk space is available. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application". While intermittent, it happens more often than not. If I ever do get it started, it seems to startup fine from then on, until I restart XP.
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> I suspect this is a problem with NTVDM.EXE. I've not found and help with this in the KB or anywhere else. Can anyone elighten me???

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Bertsky - 14 Jun 2004 22:50 GMT

I have a workaround which, so far, alleviates the problem. If I turn off XP System Restore, FP starts fine. If I turn it off, it fails. I don't know why.

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