Have you tried a full uninstall of Symantec? Most Symantec apps embed themselves so deep in the computer, and yes, I've seen a number of instances with Symantec software causing problems where a 'disable' actually has no effect.
If you're worried, take the computer off the network, uninstall Symantec, reboot, potentially reinstall Pidgin, then rerun pidgin, see if the problem goes away. At 11:50 AM 3/12/2008, Eric Caron wrote: >We have around 20 installs running Pidgin, but on 2 machines (with >different users) I recently, consistently get the attached error: > >"The Application failed to initialize properly (0xc000007b). >Click on OK to terminate the application." >It's very similar to the situation in this previous thread - ><http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2008-February/000631.html>http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2008-February/000631.html > >- but my error is 0xc000007b instead of 0x000007b. I've done a full >uninstall and a re-install, both regular and debug builds of 2.4.0, >and no-change. Running pidgin as another admin user works >(right-click "Run As"), despite these 2 users having admin >privileges. No .rpt is dumped, and "-d > debug.log" just creates an >empty file. Disabling Symantec doesn't resolve the issue, but it >looks like a culprit since these worked fine before we went from 8 to 11. > >Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I've blown away the >.purple and plugins directories to rule those out as the culprits. > >Thanks, >Eric > > >_______________________________________________ >Support mailing list >[email protected] >http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
