FP2006 Final crashes on startup

[jon]

I installed FP2006 on my Win2K machine, but it won't start. Splash screen appears, then immediately I get "1stpage.exe has generated errors..." message.

Tried reboot and reinstall to no avail. Could possibly be related to the splash screen bug reported by others? But can't get far enough to turn the splash screen off.

[Admin]

Did you have a previous beta of FP installed?

[jon]

Did you have a previous beta of FP installed?

Not on that machine. It was upgraded recently to Win2K and has had neither 1stPage 2000 nor 2006 beta installed on it.

When I get time, I'll try the new version on my work machine, which is also Win2K and runs the beta just fine.

[FuzzieDice]

I had the same problem. But I installed both First Page 2000 and First Page 2006 and then deleted both directories, shut down the computer completely, restarted the computer after going out for a bit, and reinstalled First Page 2006. It's now working ok except after closing the program and restarting it, I can't get any pages to open. :(

[chris123]

Source Mode: > Options > General Program Preferences > Start Up > uncheck: Show Splash Screen. This will fix the splash page bug.

[MrSpandex]

No, no, I fixed this porblem by removing FP 2000 and FP2006, deleting both directories, re-installing 06', and then making it so it creates a new doc on startup. That seems to be enough to crash it on startup, so just make sure it makes a new file.

Other thread: http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4471

[jon]

I fixed this problem by removing FP 2000 and FP2006, deleting both directories, re-installing 06', and then making it so it creates a new doc on startup.

But...for me it won't start up the first time: freezes as soon as the program launches. Can't ever get to an actual program window where I could turn off splash screen, set to open a new doc, etc.

This computer never had 2000 or beta, tried reinstalling and making sure all directories were removed; even checked registry for leftovers. Seems perfectly clean but blows up every time.

Any way to start with a command-line switch, etc.?

[Flying Dutchman]

You just asked for the great enigma!

Just type 1stpage.exe/bfm (bug free mode)

[vollhanzz]

I always get this error while starting FP2006:

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/7631/errorfp20064eh.jpg

I didn't have any beta of FP2006 before and I uninstalled FP2000 before installing the new FP.
I tryed to reinstall/re-download FP2006 but I get the same Error again.
I also tryed to clean the registry with regcleaner before installing it but it doesn't work.
The Log file is not created or I don't find it anywhere...

Please Help me
Hanzz

[jon]

I always get this error while starting FP2006:

Exactly the same error as mine (except in German!). If any of the programmers are reading this, would the log file be helpful? I could upload or e-mail it.

[Galactic]

jon, I think that if you turn on DEP, Data Excecution Protection, that you will get a DEP report when you start FP2006. I am hoping that a number of people in the FP2006 community will turn on DEP, especially those that are getting lockups and program crashes. I think it will be helpful to the developers of the programs to know if these events are accompanied by program actions that cause DEP reports. An introduction to DEP and a bug report thread that can be used to report DEP related behavior of FP2006 is here:
http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=23443#post23443

If you are using Windows XP, Data Execution Protection is available. As I understand it, FP2006 was developed for Windows XP and it will not run on earlier versions of Windows.

[ FP2006 does not require Windows XPSee the post folllowing by davews. For more see, http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=23736#post23736. For the Evrsoft page on FP2006 system requirements, go here, http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage3-requirements.shtml] ]

[davews]

If you are using Windows XP, Data Execution Protection is available. As I understand it, FP2006 was developed for Windows XP and it will not run on earlier versions of Windows.

FP2006 WILL run on 98SE although Evrsoft say ME and above. I have not had any difficulties here with 98SE on a P3 550. Of course DEP is only available on XP.

[Galactic]

FP2006 WILL run on 98SE although Evrsoft say ME and above. I have not had any difficulties here with 98SE on a P3 550. Of course DEP is only available on XP.

davews, I remembered this wrong. I apologize [for posting incorrect information].

Unnecessary iinformation removed.

[Galactic]

FP2006 WILL run on 98SE although Evrsoft say ME and above. I have not had any difficulties here with 98SE on a P3 550. Of course DEP is only available on XP.

Thank you. davews, for your response. It gently let me know that I had made a mistake. I am putting some corrections out now as I got this wrong in several posts in these forums.

The Evrsoft page on FP2006 system requirements, is here, http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage3-requirements.shtml] A post that may be a better place to comment on this is here, http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=23736#post23736l]

Feel like you just read this information somewere? :) I edited my two previous posts in this thread to explain I made a mistake. Tthis one is for people who read those before I did that.

[Galactic]

I installed FP2006 on my Win2K machine, but it won't start. Splash screen appears, then immediately I get "1stpage.exe has generated errors..." message.

Tried reboot and reinstall to no avail. Could possibly be related to the splash screen bug reported by others? But can't get far enough to turn the splash screen off.

jon, suggestions I posted here,
http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4550, may help you. If you try them, let me know what happens by replying there.

These forums have more reports of a "hung splash screen on FP2006 startup" then of error reports from Windows on FP2006 startup, but that may be because you use a different Windows version. I think the suggestions there for "hung splash screen" may also be helpful with your problem.

[jon]

jon, suggestions I posted here,
http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4550, may help you. If you try them, let me know what happens by replying there.


Oddly enough, cleaning up registry entries and temp files made the difference. Don't ask me why, but I'm not complaining. Thanks!

[digger]

Looks like the best thread to post this:

I had a similar problem last night - FP2006 would launch, go through its "loading..." sequence on the splash screen and then simply disappear. No error, no Windows message, nothing.

I took the earlier advice and turned on DEP (it's not on as the DEFAULT??? Sheesh) but that neither fixed the problem or generated any extra diagnostics. Clean reboot didn't fix it either.

In the end, removal and reinstallation was the answer (at least it reset the nag screen clock ;o)) - I just hope I don't have to do that every few weeks.

[digger]

Another day, another reinstall :mad:
This time after reinstalling I got the above problem right away - no chance to disable the splash screen, it just started crapping out.

So, for anyone stuck in the same pit, you can disable the splash screen before you even run FP up by editing the preferences.ini file in your install folder:
[Startup]
splashscreen=0

[Galactic]

So, for anyone stuck in the same pit, you can disable the splash screen before you even run FP up by editing the preferences.ini file in your install folder:
[Startup]
splashscreen=0


Digger, glad to see your posts but the problems you are reporting are distressing. The details you report above are interesting. I have no idea how you knew to try that!

Have you ever gone through something equivalent to the procedure that is posted here (http://developers.evrsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=24088#post24088) for clean remove, install, and configuration steps the first time 1st Page 2006 is open? I am not sure but I think that this whole procedure might result in more enduring period of 1st Page 2006 working. If you try it good luck. If you do not try it, good luck.

:cheers:

[digger]

I have no idea how you knew to try that!
It has something to do with me having been in computing for almost 30 years, and working with PCs for 16 of those 30.

[BillSamuel]

After the nag screen, it disappears (probably because I have selected the option not to show the splash screen which is what one would normally see at that point) but then fairly quickly (I have a new, fairly powerful PC, might be a big wait on other PCs) it comes up with the click 2x screen and then resolves to what it should be. Somewhat of a mess, but doesn't interfere with operation of the program itself. I guess the click 2x screen thing might be considered a bug, but it's only an annoyance.