Something Corrupted

[Soquili]

The error indicates that nothing was added to the treeview, meaning registry entries for Web Designer and/or Xtreme were found. However, attempts to read the other registry keys needed to fill out the other controls on the XaReg window were either denied access or were not there to be read.

I would recommend deleting the current XaReg.exe and the dac.ini file in the same folder. Download a copy of the XaReg.zip file from the Xara Xone Shareware page. http://www.xaraxone.com/html/shareware.html

Unzip the XaReg.exe to a folder on your hard drive and try running the program.

[V12CatMan]

I would recommend deleting the current XaReg.exe and the dac.ini file in the same folder. Download a copy of the XaReg.zip file from the Xara Xone Shareware page. http://www.xaraxone.com/html/shareware.html

Unzip the XaReg.exe to a folder on your hard drive and try running the program.

Same error occurred

[Soquili]

Are you comfortable using Regedit?

If so please take a screen shot of the following registry key.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Xara\WebDesigner\5.0\Op tions

[V12CatMan]

Comfortable. Here it is.

[Soquili]

This is very odd.

Do the registry entries for the other Xara products you own also appear correct?

[V12CatMan]

That appears to be the case.

[Soquili]

OK I think I know what is happening.

XaReg saves settings in a user.config file and reads that in when the application starts.

It is possible your last saved settings file is referencing an index for the TreeView control that no longer exists.

Look for a user.config in the C:/Users/yourusername/AppData/Local/yourusername/XaReg****

There may or may not be more text after the word XaReg. Find the most recent user.config file (because I have written many versions I have multiple XaReg***** folders with many user.config files for the various versions.

You can either delete the user.config file or if you want you can edit it with notepad. It is an XML file.

The following is an example of the most recent file on my system.

<?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<userSettings>
<XaReg.My.MySettings>
<settingname="LastEdited"serializeAs="String">
<value>5</value>
</setting>
</XaReg.My.MySettings>
</userSettings>
</configuration>



In the above example the value 5 (<value>5</value>) is what needs to be changed in your file. Make it 0 and the program will highlight the first node of the TreeView control.

[Soquili]

BTW I have updated the code base to handle this type of error in future versions.

[V12CatMan]

BTW I have updated the code base to handle this type of error in future versions.

That fixed it I'm glad now I posted this rather than simply trying uninstalling/installing Xara etc. There's a good lesson here.
Thanks Bill! By the way I had to hunt the user.config file which was here.

[Soquili]

Ah....I should have remembered it was different in XP than in Vista.

It was a round about way of getting there, but I'm glad it is working for you now.