Program Won't Open

[Dan]

I've got a very simple phonebook/address program on my
computer that I copied over from my old HP Pavilion 200
MHz Pentium. I think it was a basic HP program that was
installed at the factory. When I purchased my current
computer in December, 2001, I simply copied this program
over to the new computer and placed the folder in the root
directory. The program worked fine.

Last week my Windows XP Home Edition operating system
crashed, and I was forced to reformat my hard drive and
reinstall XP. I was able to save the phonebook program by
hooking up my hard drive as a slave drive to another HD
that had a functioning operating system. After
reformating and reinstalling XP, I transferred the
phonebook program over to the C:\programs folder. When
I'm logged into the administrator User Account, the
phonebook program opens fine. However, when I log into
any other User Account and attempt to open the phonebook
program, I get the following error:

"Not enough memory or disk space. Try exiting and
restarting Phone Book, exiting applications, or removing
files. (DB5201)"

I tried moving the folder containing the program and it's
data file to the root directory. As such, the program
would open no matter which UA I was logged in as, but it
would not open the data file containing my addresses/phone
numbers but instead opened a new, blank data file.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Dan

 

[R. McCarty]

The program options (Address book, etc) are profile specific.
Some programs create a central repository in the folder..
C:\Program Files\Common Files\'Company Name -or- App name'.

Then each user may have specific options for that program
saved in C:\Documents and Settings\'Username'\Application data
'Company Name -or- App name'. I would suspect that the
correct data files are defined in the Administrator profile but
not the others.

It could be that a pointer in the application options is pointing
to a non-existent file location, so default actions are taken.
You should check in the programs folder for any .Ini or other
type of initialization file for settings,etc.

The program could also be writing options into the Registry
hive for each profile (Ntuser.Dat).

Sorry I can't give you a definitive answer but programs can
have a number of different ways to store options or setup
values.