you may want to search these archives, this sounds a bit familiar
the .bpl file definitely rings a bell
are you using Service pack 6 ? SP6
maybe you reinstalled and did not run the service pack ?
the first error message i think relates to a file format change
somewhere around SP4 or 5
somewhere in these archives you will find a discussion about a 'clean
install' which came from protel
in that they describe deleting certain files the .bpl 's among them
ok found it !
here it is: NOTE #5 !
Version # Protel 99SE/ Service Pack 6:
PROBLEM: Is there a specific uninstall procedure for Protel? I have
uninstalled and reinstalled using add and/remove programs but Protel is
still acting up.
SOLUTION:
1) Un-install Service Pack 6 for 99SE
2) Un-install 99SE
3) Delete the Design Explorer 99 SE directory
(make sure you have no personal files or libraries stored here before you do
this).
4) Delete the files *99SE.* from your Windows or Winnt folder
5) Also delete from the Windows or Winnt folder *.bpl and *.dpl, if they are
still remaining.
6) Re-install Protel 99 SE
a) If Win 9x then Reboot
7) Re-apply Service Pack 6
a) If Win 9x Then Reboot
- Original Message -
From: Dennis Saputelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lori Quevedo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: protel
*
HTH
Dennis Saputelli
this below i found while trolling for the clean install procedure, it
probably does not relate to your issue but i thought was interesting
Thank you very much Ralph, and others
You were right about what had happened. I had already found the problem by
the time I read your post.
I found it using Filemon. It appeared that the Help and support service
failed to start at boot as winxp's svchost.exe used %systemroot%\system32 to
find the appropriate files and as the windir env var had been set to an
actual string %systemroot%, obviously it could never find the directory
%systemroot%\system32 because it didn't exist.
As for the repair I found a much easier way the one described below.
On the desktop you right-click My Computer and select properties, click on
the advanced tab and click the Environment Variables button. In the bottom
list of system variables you'll find windir, which is listed as having a
value of C:\WINDOWS but when you click edit the dialog that proceeds shows
the actual value to be %systemroot%! I changed it to the appropriate value,
in my case C:\WINDOWS, rebooted and presto, all was good.
Alfonso
-Original Message-
From: Ralph Petzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 6 August 2004 11:49 AM
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: Re: [PEDA] P99SE installation
On Thursday 05 August 2004 6:09 am, John A. Ross [Design] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Alfonso Baz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05 August 2004 06:47
To: proteledaforum@techservinc.com
Subject: [PEDA] P99SE installation
I'm curious if anybody else has noticed the following when
installing P99SE
SP6 on either WIN2K or WINXP.
Recently I upgraded my PC. I noticed after a clean OS install
followed by installation of my usual software packages,
windows Start-Help and Support didn't work. Also
right-clicking My Computer on the desktop and selecting
Manage failed to respond.
Thanks to XP's system restore, I found the offending software
installation.
P99SE
Alfonso
I'll quote the fix from Google Groups:
**
Symptoms:
Help and Support center won't run
Trying to start the Help and Support services results in Error 126
Repairing Windows XP does not solve the problem
SFC /SCANNOW results in an RPC server unavailable error
Applying the fixes from Doug Knox does not fix the problem.
XP Fax support will not install.
Try this:
At a command prompt, type SET
If the value for WINDIR=%systemroot% (and if you have all the above
mentioned problems, it WILL be :-) ) you need to apply the following
fix:
Run REGEDIT
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager \Environment
in the right-hand pane, find the value WINDIR. You'll notice it is of
type REG_SZ. This is incorrect since it's value (%systemroot%) needs to
be expanded to what windows will eventually use (in my case,
C:\WINDOWS).
What is happening is window is attempting to load the help and support
module (and anything else that relies on the %windir% environment
variable) by calling it %systemroot%\pathtofile\file.dll instead of
c:\windows\pathtofile\file.dll.
DELETE the existing windir value.
Make a new EXPANDABLE STRING VALUE, call it WINDIR and give it the
value
%systemroot%
This procedure basically recreates the WINDIR value as an expandable
string.
Reboot your system and watch your help and
