I am trying to run a program on my XP machine. It is a new version
of a program that I have run the last four versions on XP and I know
from a user forum that others are running it successfully on XP, so it
must be my system. When I run the program, I get a splash screen and
then nothing. Is there any sort of log that XP keeps of events that
would tell me what is happening? Previously I had Visual Studio 2008
on the same computer. The process to uninstall it left all sorts of
bits in the registry, so when this other program crashed, I got a
dialog box saying that Visual Studio's just-in-time debugger was not
enabled so it could not diagnose thie "Unhandled Win32 Exception" that
just occurred. I have since spent two hours scouring the registry to
remove VIsual Studio fragments, but this tells me, I think, that the
program that I want to run is encountering a Win32 problem while
coming up. I don't know, however, how to determine what is wrong.
Any built-in tools or tools I can download from the web that would
help me diagnose the problem? (I program in Java and I'm used to
being told by the VM exactly what's wrong.)
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