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Ok so at least the debug makes a little more sense but it's still not working without running it as administrator:
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Some security policy on your computer is preventing calibre from communicating with its worker processes. Running as administrator probably gets around it. I am not sufficiently experienced with windows system administration to tell you how to find and change that policy.
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Thank you everyone for your take on this, I really appreciate it.
bernie - I didn't attempt to do a system repair as I haven't had any other problem with my computer or made any significant changes recently. Also, it looks like my problem may be solved... Unfortunately, I don't know what solved it, so I don't think that my experience will be very useful for the next person that encounters the same issue. But just in case, here is what I did last: The last time I activated the compatibility setting "run as administrator" for calibre.exe, I did so using Windows' troubleshooter instead of manually checking the box under the exe file properties. Just to see if it would make any difference. Though as far as I know, all this does is check the box for you. (On a side note - I have to commend Microsoft for the improvements to its troubleshooter in recent years. Before Windows 7 - or maybe vista to be generous - I don't think I can recall anyone claiming that the troubleshooter had ever helped them solve any real-life computer issue - and those were a lot more frequent. But today, if I hadn't even looked up my issue online, I would have been able to run Calibre just by using the troubleshooter. Ironically though, I can't help but wonder how a "solve issue" button that works can be necessary...) Anyway, after Mr. Goyal said that it looked like a windows security policy issue, I wanted to test other things, such as turning off Windows Smart Screen. So I unchecked the "run as administrator" box in the file's properties. Then, before I tried turning off Windows Smart Screen, I tried opening calibre to make sure that I was still getting the same error message. But the program opened without issue... I opened it directly from the exe file, not from a shortcut. I also checked directly in the registry to see if there was any compatibility setting left for calibre, in those two locations and there was none: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Window NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers So I'm clueless, but at least my issue seems solved. Thanks again. |
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Smart Screen is a security 'feature' see SmartScreen Filter: frequently asked questions - which is what Kovid suggested.
Maybe it was causing the block - it obviously reaches beyond the scope of IE. When it starts Calibre, calls home to look for new versions of itself and here to look for new versions of installed PI's BR Last edited by BetterRed; 08-23-2014 at 12:48 AM. |
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