[DUG] [computing] DElphi XE2 suddenly stops working

[Steve Peacocke]

Hi All, just an update on this. I have found the culprit which I'll tell
you about later, but first you have to read the story. Sit down on the
floor with your arms crossed for this and no you can't go to the toilet so
put your hand down.

I'm still at my computer a day later and although I have given it every
single swear word in my rather extensive vocabulary (I was taught by the
best, thanks Ian :), Delphi XE2 still would not load.

It WOULD load if I used the -rCleanInstall as suggested, and I even used
the -cleanregistryide that is supposed to clear everything permanently from
registry - and for those of you too nervous to try this "last resort" - it
doesn't.

At one stage, I thought I could simply bypass it by using the -rNewOne to
create and use a NewOne registry and simply reinstall everything, but
reinstalling would only install to the main, not the NewOne so I couldn't
do that.

It was suggested on here that I was loading a dicky project so I renamed
every path I could think of and finally deleted just about every .dsk file
from the last couple of months and YES - That made absolutely no difference
at all, still crashed.

Trolling every dark corner of the internet showed there may be a xxx70.*
being loaded in registry where it wasn't supposed to be as I also have
Delphi7 installed, so I went painstakingly (hours, bloody hours) through
every section of the registry ..... but no again.

So, I HAD to uninstall every component package one by one

As I couldn't load DelphiXE2, I couldn't uninstall the components and that
had me stumped for a while. So what I had to do was do that through
Window's uninstall programs. Uninstalling TMS first.

TMS was not on there so I simply deleted it from the disk (yes, I was
getting rather serious about now, you would have been proud of me Ian, I
found some new words). Delphi dutifully told me it couldn't find the TMS
stuff, and after clicking some button (I don't care, any button), it
continued to load until... Crash!

RESOLUTION HERE !!!

Ok so it was on to DevArt components, but I used Windows' Uninstall to
remove Devart's DBForge Fusion from my computer - VIOLA!!!! It worked.
Finally I had it loaded.

So, downloaded and resintalled dbForge Fusion again and ..... Crash.
Unistalled it and it works.

So, I have fired off a pleasant note to DevArt about this but in the
meantime, although I paid for it, I can't have it on my disk.

I'm going to have some sleep - after I reinstall my TMS components and
perhaps get some work done. There's always more coffee.

Steve Peacocke
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