Applications can't start anymore !

Mon Aug 27 08:56:04 UTC 2012

Hi,

The application you mean is dependency walker.
Get it from http://www.dependencywalker.com/

Casper

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 25 August 2012 Aug, Patrick Gelin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was running kde-windows with kmymoney for one year without any
>> problem, then after installing xamp (or may be an other program), no kde
>> applications run anymore. When I click on kmymoney icon my PC look
>> starting but nothing append... I was wondering if the better solution
>> was to desinstall kde windows but I can't find the way : Windows
>> software configuration can't access to kde desinstaller, and I can't
>> find any application into kde directory to do this. Could you please
>> explain me wxhat to do (log file to understand, programm desinstaller
>> location...). Thank you for your help.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if the issue is that xamp (or another program) installed a dll in the windows system path that is provided and needed in another version by the kde applications. Gtk-based applications like gimp are the usual culprit in these cases.
>
> Re-installing kde-win isn't a solution here since kde-win keeps all its dll's in its own path, so it won't override the system-wide dll installed by another application.
>
> There are some tools (that I'm not too familiar with) that can check which dll's are used by an application. I think it's called dll-walker. If you use that on the kde application and find something used from the windows system path like iconv.dll, then that's the problem.
>
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