Re: Spooky netwoking behaviour! XPHome, Win98SE, XPPro...SP2, SP1....H

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From: kpg (ipost_at_thereforeiam.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:06:12 -0600

"CrabbySteve" <CrabbySteve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B93EC0D1-D6F2-4C48-B0FC-29CAFC1ABB32@microsoft.com...
>#(2/14/2005 2:56:21 PM) #
> Ah! Talking to myself eh?
>
> Well, Ghost 2003 didn't have enough room, so that idea has gone out of the
> window (I couldn't be arsed to find out how to configure it to work with
> the
> network at that time of night!)
>
> I've downloaded SP2, and the PC now appears to connect to the other
> machines
> OK,
>
> ..BUT , trying to install apps off the server by double-clicking the
> appropriate .exe file in Windows explorer results in a message (25% of
> time?)
> of -
>
> "This application has failed to start because the application
> configuration
> is incorrect" and the helpful note that RE-installing the app might help.
> The
> same .exe files copied to the desktop work fine. (Copied on the server
> they
> don't work).
>
> My guess is that explorer is still screwed somehow.
>
> Sod alcohol - Linux looks ever more attractive!

Several of my clients get the error:

"This application has failed to start because the application configuration
is incorrect"

also, but only on the network drive When I copy the exe down to a local
drive it runs fine. When I have the program read the data from the original
networked drive (with an ini file change) it runs on the local drive and
reads the
network data just fine.

Other machines on the same network work fine (Win98). Some other XP
machine also work fine.

I have reports of at least three machine with this problem - all are XP Home
or
Pro all have down a windows update then the error occurred.

This particular exe uses an XP visual style manifest resource compiled into
the
exe to get xp user controls to display XP visual styles. I think this is
the problem
but I have not been able to test this yet.

Somehow I think that the update (maybe the .NET 1.1 portion) is not allowing
the manifest to run on the Intranet (network drive), but does allow it to
run on
the local drive.

Note that the exe is written in VB6, not .NET, but it uses a XP visual style
manifest,
which my research has shown if there were an error in the manifest file then
this
error would occur.

I think this is a new issue tied to the Feb 05 XP security updates.

Anyone with info please post reply.

TIA
kpg

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