07-21-2008, 05:11 AM | #1 |
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Calibre Won't Start on Win XP and Vista
Calibre 0.4.77 - .78 - .79 won't start up the GUI when using the desktop
icon nor with the folder icon. It does open the LRF viewer when I want to open a book but thats the only thing I can get it to do Removing all traces of previous installs doesn't seem to help either. I re-installed 0.4.76 and that works perfectly on both os'ses |
07-21-2008, 06:47 AM | #2 |
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That sounds like something you should post at the calibre website -- I've got all the latest versions as they've come out, using WinXPpro, and they've worked just fine.
When you say "on WinXP and Vista" do you mean that you have a dual-boot system and it doesn't matter which OS you try to run it from, or have you installed it on two computers, one with each OS, and it won't run on either computer? |
07-21-2008, 07:21 AM | #3 |
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Two Computers
Last edited by mazzeltjes; 07-21-2008 at 07:30 AM. |
07-21-2008, 11:37 AM | #4 |
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Please follow the instructions at http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/user_m...ing-on-windows
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07-21-2008, 12:34 PM | #5 |
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HI Kovid,
Thanks for the quick reply tried the solution you said but it still won't work here's the message I got: |
07-21-2008, 01:04 PM | #6 |
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I need the rest of that error message as well
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07-21-2008, 01:30 PM | #7 |
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This should be it
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07-21-2008, 04:05 PM | #8 |
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locate and delete the file calibre.ini and calibre2.ini
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07-21-2008, 05:24 PM | #9 |
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Alas,that didnt work either
On my vista laptop I did a complete new install of the os and formatted all partitions downloaded latest version and calibre still won't start up |
07-21-2008, 05:42 PM | #10 |
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are you getting the same error message on the new install as well?
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07-21-2008, 06:05 PM | #11 |
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This is the error report I''m getting now
hope this helps this is on vista |
07-21-2008, 06:07 PM | #12 |
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post your calibre2.ini file if it exists.
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07-21-2008, 06:22 PM | #13 |
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no such beast seems to live on my machine
10 minutes later I've installed 0.4.76 and that runs as it should????????????? Last edited by mazzeltjes; 07-21-2008 at 06:32 PM. |
07-21-2008, 06:38 PM | #14 |
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Hmm try installing 78 over 76 and see
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07-21-2008, 06:53 PM | #15 |
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installed.78
the gui won't work lrf viewer works Also the installer doesn't remove and replace the desktop icon and the start folder has everything doubled now Last edited by mazzeltjes; 07-21-2008 at 06:56 PM. |
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