Old format or invaild type library

[Guest]

We have an application built by a company for us and it
has worked fine on WinNT. But when we install it on a
WinXP you have to be a member Privileged Users or Local
Administrators group to get the program to work. If
you're not, you get the follwing errormessage when
starting it (telelist.exe is the application file):
"Exception EOleSysError in module Telelist.exe at
000051CB9. Old format or incalid type library"

The company who built the program for us doesn't know why
so I'm asking if someone else have similiar problems with
other application?

Also, when you install this application you have to
install something called OLE 5.1 - Desktop Toolkit
Interface. I don't know what this is but it might help
solving this strange behaviour.

 

[Steven Liu]

Dear Customer,

This is an application incompatibility problem. Some applications which are
designed for previous Windows system will not work on Windows XP.

We can try as the following steps.

1. Run RegMon from www.sysinternals.com which you launch the application
with a common user. Check whether you can find the access failure in
RegMon. If yes, launch regedit to grant the user enough permission with
regarfs to the related registry keys. (You may need to do this by logging
on as the computer administrator.) Then, Try to run the application again
and see whether this works.

2. Use FileMon from www.sysinternals.com which you launch the application
with a common user. Check whether you can find the access failure in
FileMon. If yes, launch regedit to grant the user enough permission with
regarfs to the related registry keys. (You may need to do this by logging
on as the computer administrator.) Then, Try to run the application again
and see whether this works.

If these steps do not solve the issue, the application must contains some
incompatible code. You can create a post in microsoft.public.vb or
microsoft.public.vc. The users in that queue have a great deal of
experience in the coding area.

Thanks for using Microsoft News Group!

Sincerely,

Steven Liu

Microsoft Online Partner Support

MCSE 2000

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