a variant of this has been posted before, but i thought it might help
someone
SE99 SP6 had been working fine in win2k
suddenly when starting protel and opening a schematic (not pcbs) or when
a sch was open when the ddb was last closed the following occurred
sporadically:
a dialog popped up, i think it was a w2k dialog, indicating that protel
was crashed and would be closed and an error log was being generated
protel would just not run, many reboots etc.
looking around for .log's i found a few (in \system32\config) but could
not examine them because of 'sharing violation', the files were always
open and in use by windows
(so how do you look at them?)
after a long while i realized i had changed my default printer to one
which was connected to a machine which was turned off
(this machine had no local printer)
i reset the default printer to Distiller or something else local and now
protel would start!
moral of the story:
if the printer is nonexistent protel will not start a schem!
not too good, lost a lot of time on that one
Dennis Saputelli
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