sidekick99+xp home. running after install

[franel]

I miss my sf99.
installed sf99 on xp home, along with truesync plus, and palm desktop. using handspring prism.
all went well after some playing around. after about 5 or 6 months, things went haywire.
when i click on the icon sf99 comes up and then disappears.
tried reinstall. no luck.
remove all referances to starfish, sidekick99, and true sync. from the machine.
did a fresh install. same thing happened.

help. help help i need my sidekick99
frank

ps i checked forum and didn't find a question or help.

thanks

 

[mjinks61]

This sounds alot like what happened to sidekick for windows when we had the Y2K problem and had to upgrade to sidekick99. Back then, it did the same thing to me. Any chance your system date is set WAY off?
Have you made sure there isn't some reference to the programs in the registry? You can get a nice little registry cleaner for free at downloads.com called RegCleaner. Just go there and do a search for that name.
It will group all the entries by author, and software name for easy removal from the registry.

 

[james33]

Dear franel,
Have you tried checking out the properties of the Shortcut you use to launch Sidekick99, to see if it is pointing at the Sidekick.exe program file in the
C:\Star99\Program folder.
(that is the default installation location)
If not, then just go there
(to the folder C:\Star99\Program) and
right-click on the Sidekick.exe file and choose:
Send to Desktop as shortcut
Failing that, check to see if you have all the following files in that folder:
(I have removed the .SKCard ones)

C:\Star99\Program desktop.cnt 2,542 R 1998/09/01 09:12:42
desktop.GID 24,199 HA 2002/12/04 20:55:44
DESKTOP.HLP 216,800 R 1998/12/07 11:43:08
Etwin.dll 102,912 1999/02/16 11:20:50
etwinres.dll 308,736 1999/02/16 11:03:40
Export.dll 70,656 1999/02/16 11:22:40
Exprtres.dll 24,064 1999/02/16 11:21:10
Form.dll 103,424 1999/02/16 11:24:18
Formres.dll 18,432 1999/02/16 11:22:58
Ftime.dll 157,696 1999/02/16 11:05:30
Import.dll 92,672 1999/02/16 11:29:26
imprtres.dll 41,472 1999/02/16 11:27:10
mdateres.dll 4,096 1999/02/16 11:07:20
Micrdate.dll 10,080 1999/02/16 11:09:40
Micrfloa.dll 77,312 1999/02/16 11:25:18
resmain.dll 558,080 1999/02/16 11:26:56
rex.bmp 1,464 1997/09/03 10:38:18
Sidekick.exe 1,689,088 1999/02/16 12:16:50
SKCalApi.dll 7,680 1999/02/16 12:03:40
skcalimp.exe 12,288 1999/02/16 12:15:10
Skdlgdll.dll 10,752 1999/02/16 11:25:50
skdlgres.dll 212,992 1999/02/16 11:25:32
SKPlugin.dll 29,184 1998/12/08 12:31:54
SKW1.FON 10,240 1997/09/17 08:39:32
SKW2.FON 10,240 1997/09/17 08:39:32
skwmapi.dll 93,696 1997/08/19 14:17:26
tmsynres.dll 12,288 1999/02/16 11:09:58
versit.dll 31,232 1999/02/16 11:26:18
Yintl.dll 89,600 1999/02/16 11:07:04
yintlres.dll 4,096 1999/02/16 11:05:50

The sizes should be about the same (especially the *.dll's)
This is from Sidekick99 Version 6.01
HTH

Regards Jim
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[franel]

I couldn't fix problem.
I started to have other problems'
I did a repair of xp that didn't help.
eventually, I reformated my dry and did a clean install and all is working ok.
thanks to all who have tried to help me.
thank you again

frank

 

[bashcooper2000]

I am desperately looking for Sidekick 98. Can you help me locate a copy of the Software suitable for Windows 98.

S. Kapoor