"Visual FoxPro 9.0 executable file has stopped working" 1

[Eylon]

Hi guys,
I am a user of a prepackaged software written in Visual FoxPro (working under Windows 8.1).
Whenever I run this software it crashes with "Visual FoxPro 9.0 executable file has stopped working".
Support personnel of the software vendor are clueless...

After browsing several FoxPro forums, I made sure the application's folder contains the 4 essential "runtimes" (actually gdiplus.dll was missing, so I copied it from the Windows\System32 folder).
However, the software would still not run.
Does anyone have a clue what am I missing?
I appreciate any comments or help.

 

[Eylon]

Thank you Olaf for your most extensive reply.
I gave Koen the installer file itself (not the link), i.e the very same file I used to install the software on my machine.

 

[Eylon]

Hey guys,
Long time.
I’m here just to report that I made no progress yet...
Was totally swamped with work. The capital markets weren’t particularly nice to “Stock Investor Pros”
Finally I got this process moving again, and should be getting my new SSD, cabinet for it, and Win 10 in a couple of weeks.
Will report back after reinstallation.
Thank you all for your help!
Eylon

 

[Eylon]

Hi Guys,
After a long pause, I was finally able to get down on the project of replacing my old Hard Drive for an SSD-Drive, and also installed Win 10 on it.
That part went very well- I am pleased with the new setting.

After a while I downloaded “Stock Investor Pro” and was hoping for flawless operation, but…
was amazed to discover that Visual Foxpro still crashes!
I have totally no idea what’s going on.
Does any of you?!
Eylon

 

[memarques]

Eylon

After all, the only thing that I think possible is: Did you try to update the BIOS?

Regards
Mauro

 

[Eylon]

Thanks memarques. This is something that didn’t come to my mind.
According to Lenovo, it seems my BIOS is a couple of months outdated.
Will try that and report.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

If the BIOS update also doesn't help the problem seems related to any conflicting other DLL, eg another software replacing the C runtime or any hardware issue, eg graphics driver with bad GDI+ compliance. VFP depends on very little, which hardware or other software could "sabotage".

Is there any dependency, any requirement like Office (Outlook, Word, Excel) being automated by the software?

As Koen could install and run it, you might try a virtual machine on your PC or a completely separate new PC (a cheap mini PC could suffice) to run it there.

At least VFP9 runs on Windows from Win98 to Win10 and despite single problems people post, which often turn out to be not related to the OS itself, VFP didn't fail for me on any Windows. And I worked with VFP since version 6 on NT, VFP7 and 9 on Win98, XP, Vista, Win7,8, 8.1 and 10 and also on Servers NT Server, Win 2003 Server Win 2008/2012 and 2102 R2. And on Terminal Servers. And there were strange problems, I also had C5 errors and the likely same "xyz.exe stopped working", but not permanently and not OS related, C5 errors are typically about some corrupt report or data and VFP9 had the most fixes about corruption related C5 errors.

Did we already address the often working solution to delete some corrupt foxuser.dbf and foxuser.fpt? You'd look for such files in the program folder. In very few occasions the software could need some foxuser records to control what tools are available in a report preview toolbar and some other very specific features of this DBF. But in general, it is replaceable and if the software doesn't prevent the generation of this table it'll just generate a new one with the next start.

Bye, Olaf.

Olaf Doschke Software Engineering

https://www.doschke.name

 

[nutjoe]

There's a company that provides database performance management. Bigger problems require bigger solutions.

 

[GriffMG]

Is it possible that the installation is missing something, but that Koen already had VFP installed on his PC and thus it, whatever was missing, already existed?





Regards

Griff
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