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I use a CAD suite dating back to 2001 (P-CAD 2001 with 2013 service pack 3). It has been working fine on my Windows 10 Professional desktop until lately. The problem is with one exe that starts and runs, but when I open a file dialog to select a data file to edit, the program closes. There is no error message or hang, it just closes. It had done this intermittently before, but now I can’t get past that point.
I figured that the installation had become corrupted, so I uninstalled. I then attempted to reinstall from the original CD. I ran the setup and got the normal message “P-CAD 2001 Setup is preparing the Installshield Wizard, which will guide you through the rest of the setup process. Please Wait.” It then hangs at about 10% completion (2 bars) for a couple of minutes before giving the message “Error extracting support files: Server execution failed”. No error code was given and no folder was created in PF(x86)\InstallShield Installation Information.
I had tried both of the above in XP and Win 7 compatibility mode. It made no difference. So next I installed on a Windows 10 laptop. The program installed fine and runs fine, so the problem is not Windows 10 incompatibility. I think something in Windows is corrupted on my desktop. Since both of the above problems seem to be related to file opening, perhaps I’m missing an MFC dll from that vintage. Any ideas of things to try?
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I figured that the installation had become corrupted, so I uninstalled. I then attempted to reinstall from the original CD. I ran the setup and got the normal message “P-CAD 2001 Setup is preparing the Installshield Wizard, which will guide you through the rest of the setup process. Please Wait.” It then hangs at about 10% completion (2 bars) for a couple of minutes before giving the message “Error extracting support files: Server execution failed”. No error code was given and no folder was created in PF(x86)\InstallShield Installation Information.
I had tried both of the above in XP and Win 7 compatibility mode. It made no difference. So next I installed on a Windows 10 laptop. The program installed fine and runs fine, so the problem is not Windows 10 incompatibility. I think something in Windows is corrupted on my desktop. Since both of the above problems seem to be related to file opening, perhaps I’m missing an MFC dll from that vintage. Any ideas of things to try?
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