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➜ MUSHclient suddenly stopped loading in Win98
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MUSHclient suddenly stopped loading in Win98
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| Posted by
| Chameleon
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| Thu 25 Mar 2004 07:30 PM (UTC) |
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| For some reason, my unregistered version of MUSHclient suddenly decided to not load this morning after I installed a popup blocker in my browser. Whether I try to start it from the startup menu, another shortcut, the command line, the run window, or from the explorer window, the same thing happens - a brief (about two seconds) burst of cpu activity accompanied by the little 'waiting' hourglass.. and then the hourglass goes away, and nothing happens.
So far, I've tried - uninstalling the popup blocker; uninstalling and reinstalling the earlier version of mushclient using the installation files I still had on my computer; downloading and installing the newest version of mushclient - after uninstalling... multiple reboots, complete shutdowns - about the only thing I haven't tried is reinstalling win98. Before I go hunting for a win98 disk - which must be around here somewhere - unless it got lost in our latest move - anyone have any ideas/suggestions for what the problem might be? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,165 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Thu 25 Mar 2004 08:42 PM (UTC) |
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| Do you have a late version of MUSHclient? In any case it sounds like it might be loading but the window is invisible.
Try pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del to see if it appears in the list of running programs.
Doing an uninstall of MUSHclient followed by a re-install should clear all registry settings that might be making it hide its main window. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Chameleon
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| Reply #2 on Thu 25 Mar 2004 08:46 PM (UTC) |
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| I wish it was that simple. No, it doesn't appear in the list of running programs, and ctrl-alt doesn't bring it up. What it seems like is that it's getting hung during initialization and terminated. I suspect it's not an issue with MUSHclient, but figured I'd toss out a question here in case anyone had run into it before and had any suggestions for dealing with it.
Thanks for your quick response :)
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,165 posts) Bio
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| Reply #3 on Fri 26 Mar 2004 12:30 AM (UTC) |
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| My other guess would be that a Windows DLL was changed in the installation of your popup blocker. Perhaps MUSHclient is finding some missing DLL entry point.
MUSHclient seems to require the following system DLLs:
kernel32.dll
user32.dll
gdi32.dll
comdlg32.dll
winspool.drv
advapi32.dll
shell32.dll
comctl32.dll
Try seeing if any of these files have a recent installation date.
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Shadowfyr
USA (1,791 posts) Bio
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| Reply #4 on Fri 26 Mar 2004 06:03 PM (UTC) |
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| Hmm. One minor point. Use a DOS window to check the dates on those. Windows does something extremely stupid when you click on or look at the properties for a file, *it updates the date on the file to the current one*... Thus the file will always look 'recent' when you examine it that way.
But yeah, I would suspect corruption of one of those too. My own system, while it will still run Mushclient, lost about 50 dlls to a virus. It didn't work exactly right after, but did boot and most programs seemed to run?!? Rerunning setup from the Windows CD replaced all the lost dlls, but with older versions, so now it actually works worse than before in some ways, since some of the missing files where later versions that depended on up to date copies of the lost dlls, which of course came in service packs that my system insists are already installed. You would think the damn installers would check the version number in the 'real' file, not its list of installed patches... Bloody Microsoft!
Frankly.. I am seriously considering, when I ever get around to reinstalling myself, placing the entire install CD on the HD in a subdirectory (this works nicely and is what I did on our other machine), then every time I install a windows patch, updating the contents of each of the damn CAB files with the new version. I don't know why someone hasn't already designed a program to do this. Basically a CD-Copy program that pulls each compressed cab from the original, patches it with the updated files, then write it to the new CD. Would make all our lives easier. Sigh... | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,165 posts) Bio
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| Reply #5 on Sat 27 Mar 2004 12:49 AM (UTC) |
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| It might update the accessed time, but it shouldn't update the modified time.
Looking at my kernel32.dll file, for example (right-click on it and get Properties) I see this:
Created: Monday, 14 October 1996 12:38:00
Modified: Tuesday, 23 November 1999 12:04:00
Accessed: Friday, 26 March 2004 11:43:30
File Version: 4.00
(This is Windows NT 4, your results will probably be different).
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Chameleon
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| Reply #6 on Sat 27 Mar 2004 06:55 PM (UTC) |
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| Update: **FIXED**
Corruption of one of those files was actually my first thought, and frankly, since my system has been needing it for a while, I just reinstalled win98 this morning rather than messing with it. The first attempt at loading the OS failed. The second called the RegistryChecker, which found a corrupt registry entry, and restored from an older backup.. and voila! All fixed. Thank heavens. One day using another client reminded me /why/ I like MUSHclient so much. For the record - I admin a mux with over 5,000 regular users. MUSHclient and SimpleMu share 'most recommended' mux client software honors there.
Thanks to everyone for your help and suggestions.
Oh, and the new release is wonderful! I especially appreciate that unlike other clients' upgrades -- I don't have to go looking all over for things that got moved around. | | Top |
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