Conference abbott::teamlinks_windows

Hello colleagues,

my problem seems to be solved now and i want to participate you on my
solution.
I installed the announced ECO01 of TL office V2.7 with the hope to solve my
dynalink problem. But the error remains the same. After checking the old
Windows_office conference about such dynalink errors i got some hints to verify
the versions of some important DLLs (i.e. note 6017).
I compared my installed files (directories Teamlinks\ and Windows\system) on
the notebook with them of a working PC and got some different files. I
exchanged these DLLs (be informed that you must do this without Windows started
because Windows stick to some of the DLLs) with the right ones on the PC and
all things went very well. My wrong DLLs were :
in Teamlinks : filecab.dll, fclist.dll, tlcommon.dll
in windows\system : storage.dll, ctl3d.dll, ctl3d32.dll, ctl3dv2.dll

An explanation of the existance of these wrong versions could be
1. i installed a lot of Shareware and Freeware and other software which changed
some of these DLLs
2. the installation of Teamlinks do not change sticked DLLs but also do not
inform the user about these omissions.

Hope this helps in the future.

regards

Rainer

Rainer,

TL's installation does check for obvious TL applications that might
still be running.  If it finds them it tells the user to exit them.
But it doesn't go so far as to check individual TL DLLs that might be
still in memory for whatever reason.  These could be left there by
third party apps that are still running or if a TL app crashed.

Do you know which apps you might have installed on the PC?  We've
been trying to get to the bottom of this for awhile.  If any of 
them came from Digital we might be able to do something about it.

Thanks for figuring this out.

Bob

Hello,

it's not so simple to answer your question because of the
plenty of software installations and deinstallations on my
Notebook in the last months. I've learned - and this should
be a warning to other persons who want to test such things -
that some programms obviously changed my WIN95 configuration
i.e. overwriting system dlls with other versions or add some
entries in the registry. For example a tool called WEBMANIA
replaces the CTL3D.DLL and COMMDLG.DLL with older versions
as of the WIN95 installation. Or a Hex editor called HEDIT
substitute automatically the first choice of the context
sensitive menu list by changing the registry and therefor
the MS-Office shortcut will not work in the right way.

I've the following software installed on my notebook (based
on WIN95 V4.00.950a with Plus! and Powertoys (Tweakui)) :

* Autostart folder :
MS-Office Shortcuts, Index, Quickstart
Quickres, Deskmenu (MS-Powertoys)
InternetMeter (Starfish PD-SW)
Traymeter V1.0 (PD-SW)
SSTART V1.05 (PD-SW)
TopDesk V3.0 (Snadboy PD-SW)

* Digital Software :
VT320 and license requester from Pathworks
Teamlinks V2.7 incl. WinELF, VTX, Conferencing with ECO1 
WinASK (a fast german WinELF similar tool)
Alpha Configuration Tool
Digital Library Catalog
 
* other software :

MS-Office 95
MS-Project
Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0
Sweep95
PointCast
Acrobat Reader V3.0
GSView
Paintshop V4.0
AcadSee95
SNAP32
VMPEGWin
Winzip V6.2
Windows Commander 95
WS-FTP32

Unfortunately i do not remember all of the software which i
tested in the last year and which i uninstalled only in a
quick and dirty way i.e. erasing the program directory.

I hope this list can help you !

regards

Rainer