Can't start Corel Xara anymore

[ogili]

I use Corel Xara on a WinNT4 SR5 OS already for a long time. But now a failure appears when I try to start Xara:

"Procedure enty point "UrlGetLocationW" can not be found in the Dynamic Link Library "SHLWAPI.dll""

(translated from german)

I already uninstalled and reinstalled Xara, but it didn't help.

What can I do? Please help!!!

- rob - [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]

[Sean Sedwards]

Further to what I said above, this may be a known bug relating to IE and programs created with the MS Office Developer's Edition. The latter install incompatible versions of Urlmon.dll and Wininet.dll, both of which call SHLWAPI.dll and are themselves called by CX. My advice remains the same, however reinstallation of IE seems a more likeley cure.


Regards - Sean

[athena]

Michael, I think you and -Rob- got your wires crossed. He did get it working. But I too think it would be cool to have an email to contact --just in case.

Back to WScript, yes, thank you to both Michael and Sean. That was the info I needed. I wasn't sure if Wscript came from a program that was important or not. (Can't get too much more important than win 98 itself!)

I didn't upgrade from Win'95 OSR2 to Win '98SE 'til late last year.(had to finish getting my mileage out of 95 OSR2). I figured somebody in this thread would know about Wscript off-hand and apparently you did. Thank you once again!

Sean, I forgot to add to my previous post that I use the Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut down both Wscript and qwdll and then my version of Norton Speed Disk for windows works flawlessly on drive C: . (that's when I fell asleep at the keyboard -- sorry)

Boy, you bring back memories. . . DOS??? Just a few months back I sent in a Rebate for the newer version of Norton Utilities and I had to send in a front page from the manual of my previous version. So I ripped out the page from Norton Utilities 8 (you remember back in the DOS and Win 3.11 days) (My mother had bought the Norton utilities for Win95 OSR2 so we weren't that behind) but I just couldn't help laughing at what the rebate people would think about our major upgrade from Norton Utilites 8 (the DOS era) all the way to Norton Utilities for Win'98.

I'm curious, do you keep a DOS folder with all the good ol' DOS files in it. I sometimes get frustrated when working on a friend's win '95 or '98 systems that don't really have all the old DOS files. I end up having to bring my important DOS files with me.

Anyway, thank you so very much for the info at least now I know it is important. (that W did have an ominous sound to it -- it made me wonder if it was microsoft's fault. Now I know it is [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] )

Athena

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[Sean Sedwards]

WSCRIPT.exe (Windows Scripting Host) is an integral part of Win 98 (possibly as a DLL) but also comes with IE5. Since the latest version I have seems to date from '97, it was probably available as an update for Win 95 too. I think it's unlikely to be the root cause of the problem.

I have a DOS version of Speed Disk that needs to be run outside of Windows because Windows is multi-tasking and can write to the disk in the background. I'm sure Norton have thought of ways round this problem, however it may be necessary to shut down all background processes. What does the Speed Disk help file say?

Regards - Sean

[This message was edited by Sean Sedwards on September 11, 2000 at 08:37 AM.]

[ogili]

I use Corel Xara on a WinNT4 SR5 OS already for a long time. But now a failure appears when I try to start Xara:

"Procedure enty point "UrlGetLocationW" can not be found in the Dynamic Link Library "SHLWAPI.dll""

(translated from german)

I already uninstalled and reinstalled Xara, but it didn't help.

What can I do? Please help!!!

- rob - [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]

[ogili]

Thanks a lot for your replies.

In the last time I installed Smartdraw 5 Prof.. I think, that was the reason, because that programm allows a smart integration with MS office products.
Because its a company pc, where the Netscape Browser is installed, I couln't install the MS IE. But I copied the shlwapi.dll from another pc with MS IE5 --> AND IT WORKS AGAIN!

Thats great. Thanks again for your help.

- rob - [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[caraman1]

....installed anything else recently?

Dennis

<a href=http://www.inconnect.com/~dennisco/>Carillus Design</a>

[Sean Sedwards]

Rob

SHLWAPI.dll is a system add-on DLL that CX doesn't access directly. It may have come with your SR but is definitely included with IE4/5 and probably with other MS products from 1998 onwards. If the problem coincided with updating a MS product, you could have your answer.

SHLWAPI is general purpose, but the error message seems to relate to the Internet. If the problem isn't with the file itself, it's probably with another Internet-related DLL calling it. Try going to Add/Remove Programs, click Add/Remove and choose the Repair option for IE. Alternatively, just reinstall IE.

Regards - Sean

[Michael]

We discussed these "faults" extensively in the original discussion forum, even before The Crash ...

MS has a habit to change it's own OS at will. One of the most stressed DLL's are the Microsoft Foudation Classes, christened MFC's. ...

If there are major changes to the OS which stop programs ftrom functioning my first suspect is the dreaded MFC42.DLL. Latest version is now at 6.00.8665.0.

Also check MSHTML.OCX, OLEPRO32.DLL and the Visual C++ runtimes, MSVCRT*.DLL.

In a fit, you could try to extract them from one of the latest CD you have (check date and version!) or try to manually extract them from Xara's CD. As these files should be backwards compatible, some things should work ...

Best of Luck and let us know how you fared!

[Michael]

I tried to contact Rob this morning, hoping that I could help since we hadn't heared from him in the last days ... His e-mail address wasn't listed with this conference. I do hope everybody will give at least an address so other memebers of this forum might help without interfering this forum ...

On the subject of wscript.dll. My guess is that it's the proprietary Windows Script Runtime Library but one can check by selecting the file in Explorer and clicking the secondary mouse button (usually the right ...)Then, in the context menu, choose Properties. In the following dialogue go for the Version tab and a lot of the more intimate details of the file will be revealed, like versionnumber, original filename and manufacturer ...

[This message was edited by Michael on September 11, 2000 at 08:02 AM.]