Hehe...I doubt anyone has worked with it, it's a horrible car wreck of an application called Universal Housing marketed by a company called Civica. Their own support teams are useless, and because we have a virtual Citrix farm with AppSense and mandatory profiles, they just blame our environment for any problems they can't solve.
According to them, the switch "registers uhm.exe so that w2 bof can access it". When I pressed them to explain this gobbledegook further, I was met with a wall of silence which is continuing now. One of their top consultants was on site yesterday and after looking at the error helpfully concluded that he wasn't a Windows guy. This pathetic lack of support is the reason I threw it out on the list in the hope that the /regserver switch did something generic that I could track to a registry key or file. I truly hate this software. Some of their report fields are called *From*and *To* which stop reports from running because I think they correspond to SQL commands....I've worked with some rubbish, but this could be one of the worst. Happy days! 2009/8/18 Christopher Bodnar <[email protected]> > It could be doing anything. Switches are hard coded in the application. > The developers can create any switches they want, to do anything, and call > them whatever they please. You should really ask the application vendor what > the switches do. > > > > What is the application? Maybe someone on the list is familiar with it, and > can give some advice. > > > > Chris Bodnar, MCSE > Sr. Systems Engineer > Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services > Guardian Life Insurance Company of America > Email: [email protected] > Phone: 610-807-6459 > Fax: 610-807-6003 > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:12 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Help with /regserver > > > > Hi guys / gals > > I have a (POS) application that, unsurprisingly, is vital to our business. > The company that manufacture said app have decided that they need to use a > special executable to run it, which keeps the version updated. It's a FoxPro > app (blech) and for some reason, when they run it, the first thing it does > is call the main executable with the /regserver switch. I'm not sure what > this does, and would appreciate it if someone could educate me, because > unless you run it with admin rights (which ain't happening on my watch), the > thing fails with the error "Visual FoxPro could not start. Could not load > resources". Running with admin rights - all OK. > > I've been looking at process monitor output all afternoon and can't work > out what it's doing, I've been messing about with registry permissions and > file permissions for what seems like an eternity. The great Google-God > appears short on inspiration (for me, anyway). Can anyone tell me what this > mysterious /regserver switch does, as I am sure something in our mandatory > profile is preventing it from executing? > > As always, thanks gratefully provided in advance. > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > http://raythestray.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > * This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is > privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. > If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are > notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or > communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail > and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. * > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
