VFP8 won't install, won't run

VFP 8 no longer runs on my box. It generates c0000005 on startup. I have
deleted all foxuser files, cleared config.fpw. I uninstalled it with the
installer, and that worked fine. I tried to re-install it, and it gives an
error, so now I can't re-install it. I copied files from CD, which I have
done before sucessfully, set them to read/write, but it still gives c0000005
on startup. VFP9 works fine on the same machine, other apps work fine AFAIK.
Anyone run into this before?

Dan
Wed Oct 05 10:59:52 CDT 2005

I haven't seen exactly this before, but the usual cause of startup problems
like this are having vfp point to a non-existent temp directory. When VFP
starts, it immediately creates temp files. If it can't create them, it
politely blows up.

Check for a config.fpw that points TMPFILES to a drive/directory that
doesn't exist.

Also scan through the registry entries for VFP8. Something there might be
misremembered. (Actually, you can completely delete the registry key for
VFP8 and it'll be recreated when VFP starts.)

Dan

Matthew L Reed wrote:
> VFP 8 no longer runs on my box. It generates c0000005 on startup. I
> have deleted all foxuser files, cleared config.fpw. I uninstalled it
> with the installer, and that worked fine. I tried to re-install it,
> and it gives an error, so now I can't re-install it. I copied files
> from CD, which I have done before sucessfully, set them to
> read/write, but it still gives c0000005 on startup. VFP9 works fine
> on the same machine, other apps work fine AFAIK. Anyone run into this
> before?

Leemi
Thu Oct 06 16:40:53 CDT 2005

Hi Matthew:

Along with Dan's comments, I would delete all the files in the Temp folder.
Start>Run and type %temp% and delete all the files you can from this
folder.

I would also try starting VFP with the -A switch to avoid reading the
Windows registry. See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;156507

I hope this helps.

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>I haven't seen exactly this before, but the usual cause of startup problems
>like this are having vfp point to a non-existent temp directory. When VFP
>starts, it immediately creates temp files. If it can't create them, it
>politely blows up.

>Check for a config.fpw that points TMPFILES to a drive/directory that
>doesn't exist.

>Also scan through the registry entries for VFP8. Something there might be
>misremembered. (Actually, you can completely delete the registry key for
>VFP8 and it'll be recreated when VFP starts.)

>Dan

>Matthew L Reed wrote:
> VFP 8 no longer runs on my box. It generates c0000005 on startup. I
> have deleted all foxuser files, cleared config.fpw. I uninstalled it
> with the installer, and that worked fine. I tried to re-install it,
> and it gives an error, so now I can't re-install it. I copied files
> from CD, which I have done before sucessfully, set them to
> read/write, but it still gives c0000005 on startup. VFP9 works fine
> on the same machine, other apps work fine AFAIK. Anyone run into this
> before?