Re: XWin dying immediately on XP Pro SP1 - diagnostics techniques?

["Alex K. Angelopoulos" <aka at mvps dot org>]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> If there is a "glitch" (or bug) in setup, we'd like to know about it
> (and fix it), no matter what precipitates it.  IOW, did you use
> "setup.exe" to download the files for your local mirror?  If so, zlib
> should have been selected.  If not, and you simply didn't download
> zlib, you may have other problems later with missing dependences that
> lurk on your system.

I think the problem is how I originally got the files; I sorted them after
direct transfer to a flat folder, and I think that's where I produced my
problem.  The original motivation of this was that if I ran setup for
download, after my link reconnected setup would never let me reconnect to
the original server.  So I would bet I do see other issues at some
point... but this has forced me to learn a bit about the packaging
structure at least.

> Is there a tool that would do that, or does it require registry hacking?

To my knowledge it's purely a registry hack.

> The reason I'm asking is that if there is a tool, people might have run
> it, and we should then add an entry to the FAQ with something like "my
> app just doesn't work with no apparent output" as the question, and the
> answer pointing them to the event log...
> Igor

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