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.<div>
<br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It WOULD load if I used the -<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">rCleanInstall</span> 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, I HAD to uninstall every component package one by one</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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!</div>
<div><br></div><div>RESOLUTION HERE !!!</div><div><br></div><div>Ok so it was on to DevArt components, but I used Windows' Uninstall to remove <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Devart's DBForge Fusion from my computer - VIOLA!!!! It worked. Finally I had it loaded.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">So, downloaded and resintalled dbForge Fusion again and ..... Crash. Unistalled it and it works.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'm going to have some sleep - after I reinstall my TMS components and perhaps get some work done. There's always more coffee.</span></div>
<div><div><br>Steve Peacocke<br></div></div><div><br></div>