Patrick, I love Linux - on my laptop, XP runs inside Virtualbox on Ubuntu...
In this case I can't switch to Linux, not yet, I mean. One of my tests was renaming the faulty user folder so when she logged in, her "Document and settings" folder was created from scratch, but this did not help... I had browsed the registry looking for "scribus", but no key was associated to the user. Now, I tried to login as "faulty" user on another pc, and I could not start Scribus even on that! So I guess something went wrong with Samba... -Gian Patrick Ernst wrote: > GianLuca Sarto wrote: > >> John, >> >> I appreciate your comment. >> >> Usually, a forum is my resort when I already spent hours >> troubleshooting myself. >> >> Even if Scribus is free, nontheless there is a hidden cost of wasted >> hours just trying to start the program, while the project is sitting >> there, waiting to go on. >> >> Although I hate the commercial attitude of Adobe, I never recall not >> being able to launch an executable. >> >> Ciao, >> -Gian >> >> > The user probably has a profile problem, possibly with registry settings > in his/her ntuser.dat file. Standard helpdesk (helldesk) procedure is to > log on to the PC remotely as an admin user and delete the profile > (hopefully after saving any useful data such as emails!). The user logs > back in and recreates the profile from the default. It can be a pain, > especially if the user has customised a lot, has settings for lots of > software or likes to store data in the profile. Browser bookmarks are > stored here etc as well. Reboot the PC and as an admin user try renaming > "Documents and Settings"\username\ntuser.dat to something else then get > the user to log in. > > Alternatively, with the user logged in run "regedit" from the Start > ->run option. Goto hkey_current_user\Software and delete any Scribus > stuff. If the PC is locked down, try renaming regedit.exe to word.exe or > something, then run it. (May need to copy to a writeable location). It > may be useful to delete "Documents and Settings"\username\Local > Settings\Application Data\Scribus or "Documents and > Settings"\username\Application Data\Scribus. I'm assuming things like > templates or scrapbook data would be here. > > Okay, that's the normal stuff to resolve this kind of problem. > Occasionally apps do screw up registry and fail to initiate properly or > you can see a runtime in Task Manager but no screen. If all else fails - > install Linux :) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090729/11c45dad/attachment.htm>
