Delphi Nonsense

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help

please please help.............

whenever i try and click on anything on my desktop a
warning comes up saying "this module was compiled with a
trial version of delphi. This trial period has expired." i
cannot eccess anything to delete this. and have never
downloaded delphi products...... can someone please please
help me to resolve this....

thanks
 
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John Dingley

You have probably downloaded a program that was built with a trial verision
of delphi and when it tries to run that is when you get the message.

It also seems like whatever program that was has also screwed your PC up as
it seems to have associated all your programs with delphi.

Try and think what you installed just before this coccured and either do a
system restore to a point before this and/or unistall that program.

I would also look on borland site and delphi newsgroups to see how this
could occur and what fix if any there is for it.
 
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Jim Byrd

Hi - You've like loaded some "malware" that was developed using a trial
version of Delphi. If you already have AdAware installed, then update it
and it will remove this parasite. You may want to try this first:

From: http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,31856,00.html


"This problem shows up because someone used a trial version of the
programming tool Delphi to write some software. They then published that
software and it ended up on your computer. Now that this person's trial
period of Delphi has expired, so has the software on your computer.
Unfortunately, this software appears to be what is called a "Shell
Extension," which is a piece of software that Windows loads and talks to
whenever you click on a file, open Internet Explorer, and in some other
situations as well. We have been able to determine which program is causing
this error, however we are still not quite sure how it is finding it's way
onto customers' computers.

Note: If you believe that this an application you should not remove please
use your own judgement of what you should do.
To remove this software, open up Control Panel via the Start Menu. Some
users have reported that the error prevents them from doing this; in this
case you will need to boot your computer into Safe Mode. To do this, reboot
the machine and press F8 as it is starting up. You will be presented with a
list of options, one of which is "Safe Mode." Once you have the Control
Panel open, select "Add/Remove Programs." You will see a list of
applications installed on your machine. One of these should be called "CPR."
Remove this application with the Add/Remove Programs window, and you should
see these errors go away. The users that we have spoken to have all reported
that this CPR application was not something they intentionally installed,
and have not reported any negative side effects from the removal of it.

On rare occasions, using Add/Remove Programs is not enough; a reference to
this software is still left on the machine and the error will persist. In
this case, you need to delete the offending software manually, and you will
need to log back into Safe Mode to do it. Once in Safe Mode, open the Start
Menu and select "Run." In the Run dialog, enter "cmd." This will take you to
a DOS window. Navigate to the c:windowssystem32 like so:


cd \windows\system32

and then remove the file manually by typing

erase cpr.dll

Reboot into normal mode and you should see the error go away."

--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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Richard

Hi there thanks for the reply on this thread i have
exactly the same problem and did notice the CPR program so
will try your fix.
thanks Richard
 

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