I don't know what happened. In the morning I was using Ventura 8 . In the evening when I tried to open it I got an error:
And then:
I tried a complete uninstall and a reinstall but no joy.
I had been having some problems with Ventura 8...this is on a Windows XP machine sp 2 (or 3... as witnessed by my previous posts here. So I reinstalled Ventura 8 in another directory. And it worked for about three days although it complained about missing a cpl file.
Then last night...
I am at a complete loss. I need this program to finish my project but can't figure out how to restore it.
And if you didn't try a cold boot of the Computer, try that. Things have sorted themselves out for me at times, with 2 or even 3 cold boots.
In each boot I think Windows tries to repair itself.
Which you could try a repair procedure on Windows using your original disk... then reinstall Ventura.
the 'dd'
The only thing I did to change my computer between the time I was able to open Ventura and when it stopped crashing was to set a password for my login. I had installed XP originally so that I wouldn't have to type a password everytime I booted up the machine. But while trying to set up a network be tween this computer and an new Win 7 computer I was prompted for a username and password. so i set one up.
I have rolled the system back several days...well beyond the point where I created the password...but that does not seem to have helped. And I still have to log in when I start the computer.
Many thanks to everyone offering advice. I just checked...I do have XP Sp3. So from the sounds of it there's no help there.
The only thing I changed in my system between the time VP8 worked and the time it didn't was that I created a password for logging into the computer. I was having some problems with a network I was trying to establish between a new Windows 7 x64 system and this Xp sp3 system. The Xp system was demanding that the Win 7 user provide a username and a password to access the files on the XP system. Since I had originally installed Xp such that I didn't a password to log in I had to create one.
Now the Win 7 system won't recognize the Xp system as part of the network (although the XP system sees the Win 7 system) , Ventura has quit running and re-installing doesn't help and now I have to wait around for the password prompt at start up.
(sigh)
I really need Ventura. What's to do, what's to do?
I have managed to get Ventura 8 back up and running...for now. Don't ask me how I did it...I have no idea. Running a registry cleaner several times and disabling AVG before install may have helped.
However, I am getting an error message that worries me:
One of the things that bothers me is that Ventura is not installed in E:\Ventura any more. It is in E:\Corel\ventura8. Why is it looking for a file in the old directory?
Anyone have any ideas about how to correct this? Get rid of the error message?
Second issue...it seems my version is now 8.429. What patches or service packs do i need to get back up to the latest version. Corel's website lists what is available but it is a bit confusing--there is a lot of them and sometimes one later patch will include the updates for previous patches.
Eric,
I looked in C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Corel\Ventura8\Ventura8\...there are several top level folders--administrator, all users, user, default user. I checked every one of them. some had Corel under Application data some did not. Only User had Corel and Ventura8 as a subfolder. All the subfolders in Ventura8\Ventura8 had a ventura.ini. None of the ventura.ini contained coreldrw.cpl.
I then did a system wide search for ventura.ini...the only ones that XP came up with were in E:\corel\Ventura. None of those contained coreldrw.cpl.
Can I live with this error message? Or is there another way to find it?
I DL'd the update...can I install it without finding coreldrw.cpl?
any other suggestion?