Re: eVC4 Installation

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

google_at_daley.snurgle.org
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: 19 Jan 2005 09:12:40 -0800

My solution -- which doesn't involve re-installing the OS, so that
makes it better than any other solution I have read about.

I was getting an error immediately after the splash screen. I ran
RegMon (I probably downloaded it from sysinternal.com a long time ago)
to watch the registry keys. I noticed the app was accessing these
keys, that looked somewhat interesting:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image
File Execution Options\setup.exe\ApplicationGoo

Not knowing what it did. I erased it.
The setup then progressed farther than it had before, bringing up the
first dialog, and then crashing when I hit "next".

Then I saw setup was trying to access this key, but it didn't exist.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\Disable Performance Counters
I saw a couple posts regarding this key, so tried adding it (DWORD) and
set it to 1 and to 0, with no affect.

I also played with this key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CEStudio\4.0\Setup\CE
Studio\SetupWizard-1033-WKM\WizardState, but didn't see any changes.

The rest of the 1656 keys that setup accesses before crashing didn't
look very interesting, although I did rename and change a number of
those keys, but had no effect, so I put them back.

After seeing a post by a "Microsoft guy" that said Microsoft offered
free support for installation of EVC4, I tried calling them, despite my
co-workers making fun of me, saying, "all they will do is search google
news, and tell you what they read there, so it isn't worth it..."

The first lady I talked to was surprised to hear that I was claiming
they offered free support, but after being on the phone for 20 minutes,
I wore her down, and she entered the ticket into the system. However,
since all she had written down from my ticket was "eVC4: Setup error
'memory could not be 'read'", the first tech support guy had to call to
get more details.
I then got put into the queue, and was called by the same guy whose
post I had read about calling Microsoft for this problem for free.
He started out saying that he hadn't ever heard of this problem, but
after I pointed out that I had read his emails responding to this
issue, he did admit that it was "rare".
He didn't like that I had been playing with the registry keys, but
searched google for me for the address 0x00000099 that I was getting
the error on.
He asked me to put back the registry keys the way they were so he could
get the previous address, and search google for that.

I did restore the registry changes, one at a time, and before I
replaced the ApplicationGoo key, just after erasing the Disable
Performance Counters key, setup went through and finished.

So, the moral of the story is, erase random keys, and put them back in
a different order, while running setup 50 times, and eventually, it
might just work.

Oh, I also uninstalled Platform Builder 4.2, Platform Builder 3.0, and
EVC3 in the process. After successfully installing EVC4, I was able to
reinstall the other products back again, and so far everything looks
good, although I haven't run EVC4 eight times, to run into the issue
mentioned in the release notes where EVC4 stops working after the 8th
time...

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