Sudden problem running old MS Greetimgs Workshop

[Mary]

I have XP SP2 with all updates and until a few days ago ran MS
Greetings Workshop without problem.

This is an old program from 1995 but ran fine on my system.

Now when I start my PC I get the warning message "Could not
initialize gwutil.dll" and when I try to start the program I get
another message "I am having trouble with a database".

I don't know why this suddenly started but I need help to resolve it.

I have tried running the program in 95 and 98/ME compatibility modes
but no difference.

Any help appreciated.

 

[Guest]

I have XP SP2 with all updates and until a few days ago ran MS
Greetings Workshop without problem.

This is an old program from 1995 but ran fine on my system.

Now when I start my PC I get the warning message "Could not
initialize gwutil.dll" and when I try to start the program I get
another message "I am having trouble with a database".

I don't know why this suddenly started but I need help to resolve it.

I have tried running the program in 95 and 98/ME compatibility modes
but no difference.

Any help appreciated.

I am having the same trouble with Greetings Workshop. I know that it is
compatible with XP-sp2 because I had a machine fully up to date with Windows
updates and Greetings Workshop ran like a top on it. Then that machine
crashed through no fault of Greetings Workshop and my alternate standby
machine which used to run Greetings Workshop now does not run it and gives me
the same errors that you report here. I boi8led it down, so far, to the fact
that I have installed .net and .net framework on this alternate machine.
..net or .net framework must change a system file that for some reason does
not have the proper information remaining in it for Greetings Workshop to
run. I am just hoping that this is not done on purpose by Microsoft to
promote more Picture It sales. Anyone haveing a workaround for this problem
would be rewarded in heaven for sure since I can find nothing out there
available that can convert or use the .gwp files extensions from my Greetings
Workshop Project folder and I have so many projects that would take months to
recreate. Thank you, chalkbd out// <chalkbd(removethis)@tvcconnect.net