Good to know.

Thanks for posting the solution that worked for you. Somehow I got back my system but really did not know after so many steps.

Best regards,
Rafael

Dayanidhi Dhandapany


Thanks very much, you can’t imagine how much your trick has helped me ( and my colleague)


best regards


mimoune

Hemanth

There is a utility that completely removes ODBC drivers from Windows XP called XPlite.

REPAIR!
More than a powerful configuration utility - XPlite give you amazing control to repair Windows as well. If a particular technology gives you trouble you can completely remove it, and then reinstall it as cleanly as the day Windows was first installed on your computer.

http://www.litepc.com/

http://www.litepc.com/xplite/oscomptop.htm

http://www.litepc.com/xplite/odbc.htm

When running XPlite it will show all windows components installed with a checkmark under the tab Add/Remove Components. If you want to completely remove your ODBC drivers expand Operating System Options and uncheck ODBC Database drivers. XPlite sets a system restore point before adding or removing features to guarantee you can ’roll-back’ changes.

Reinstall Service Pack 3, P3 and Suretrak and hope for the best. Maybe MS Access and Excel will require running a repair as to restore their ODBC drives. Anyway anything is better than reformatting your hard disk and restoring all drivers, software, settings and user data.

Because I solved my issue I have not tried this option, if your EDP people find there is nothing to lose, then in such case you might give it a try.

Hemanth you can e-mail me an empty e-mail to rafael.davila@onelinkpr.net so I can send you back some links that might be of interest to you regarding this utility. You will need the pro version, the tral version will not remove ODBC.

I am 8 hours earlier than you, not much of a window to be online at the same time.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.html?sort=1

Best regards,
Rafael

thanks Rafael for your time
but

i dont have any said connection in the user DSN
......................
I can install SURETRAK3
but does not runs
it says

"Unable to find a serial number .Please make sure that the files in the Program or work directory,as specified in the registry,are not marked READ-ONLY"
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IT guys told me to reinstall XP service pack 3
done .........but no change
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P6 works fine

Hi Hemanth,

I haven’t tried anything yet. It was on my colleagues laptop and P3 is still locked. On my company laptop P3 is still working fine and so, not in a hurry.

I was busy last week, but this weekend I will try what rafael has said or else i will go to the service centre guys. Dont think of formatting so soon.

All the best

Thanks Rafael for ur help.

I will give a try this weekend.

Cheers,

Raviraj

Thanks a ton Rafael,

I will try on this weekend. (Its friday & saturday off here)

Hope this shud work

:-)

The first thing occurs to me is uninstall again P3 and relocate projects folder in order to force the installation to create the folder again in the hope this will have an effect in the registry settings for the database. Then get back the project files to the directory they belong.

If this does not work then will have to figure out which registry entries must be corrected.

To do a registry restore I know of two ways. The first one is using XP System Restore, this is not as good as using a restore from other utility such as, Registry Mechanic, RegCure, Regisry Booster, Wise Registry Cleaner Pro. For these to work you must first regularly backup your registry within the utility. Therefore I suppose this is not what is going to solve your issue.

XP System Restore From:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756

Windows XP
1.Click Start, click Run, type %SystemRoot%\System32\Restore\Rstrui.exe, and then click OK.
2.On the Welcome to System Restore page, click Restore my computer to an earlier time (if it is not already selected), and then click Next .
3.On the Select a Restore Point page, click the system checkpoint. In the On this list select the restore point area, click an entry that is named "Guided Help (Registry Backup)," and then click Next. If a System Restore message appears that lists configuration changes that System Restore will make, click OK.
4.On the Confirm Restore Point Selection page, click Next. System Restore restores the previous Windows XP configuration and then restarts the computer.
5.Log on to the computer. When the System Restore confirmation page appears, click OK

I understand you as I just experienced your problems with the drivers but had a registry backup. It blocked not only P3 but also Suretrak.

With any of the following most probably you should be back to prior to the start of problem.

1) If you have a registry backup from a registry utility you can restore the registry.

2) If not then you can try with System Restore from Accesories/System Restore.

My experience is that a restore from a registry backup from a utility is more efficient than XP System Restore.

Before adding software always remember to backup your Data and System Files and/or a Full Backup. Usually a registry restore should do it.

Database setup is very tricky, avoid messing with them unless you backup and know what the software is doing to your system. This is the main reason I am against P6 as a solution for those not in need of entreprise Stuff.

I once had something similar on my Suretrak at home after playing around with ’Pervasive’ software; subsequently had to remove all references to btrieve/primaver in the registry.

cheers,

Omar

There is at least 2 possibilities: -
1. Please check the Btrieve data engine version.
2. Some software will remove some Window system files when installation. You need to find out which system files is deleted and put back in. (I have this experience when installing Pervasive SQL, 6 Window system files deleted on win95 and 10 will be removed on winXP)

Daya,

Thanks alot for your help - I followed your instructions and my problem is solved.

Cheers.

Fellow Planners,

I’ve just installed P3 V3.1 on a machine running Windows XP SP1. This worked fine initially, but now when I attempt to start P3 I get the error message ’A Serial Number Could Not Be Locked’.

The only thing that has been done to the machine between P3 working and not working, is that I installed the Pervasive 32 bit ODBC drivers.

I’ve heard of this problem before and thought the answer was to enter the task manager, kill some processes (wowexec.exe was one I think...) and restart, but I’m struggling to turn this theory into practice.

If anyone knows the solution to this, your help would be greatly appreciated.

To establish exactly which files may be missing or corrupted, do a search for the 3 files in the system32 folder. If any of the files cannot be found you will need to reinstall them from either your OS Installation disk or a folder on your system_root called i386.

To resolve this issue, type the following commands at a command prompt to expand the Autoexec.nt, Command.com, and Config.nt files from the Windows XP installation CD-ROM to the WindowsSystem32 or WinntSystem32 folder. Press ENTER after you type each command. When you type these commands, replace cd-rom with the letter for your CD-ROM drive, drive_letter with the drive letter for your system partition, and system_root with the name of your Windows XP folder (this is typically either Winnt or Windows). After you type these commands, restart your computer:

expand cd-rom:i386config.nt_ drive_letter:system_rootsystem32config.nt
Do this for any of the 3 files not found in your search.

The "expand" command is used to decompress the files to their original format.
The above files are utilised for running 16 bit applications in a virtual Windows environment.

Hope this clarifies the reinstallation process.

Good Luck

Paul

Try as paul says or u reinstall the operating system.Remember to back up all data before reinstalling the windows. Presume u are using the original windows xp.

Seem Window XP SP2 cause problem.
Recently, there are some noise stated some software cannot run probabyly after winXP SP2 installation.

I had this problem after installing Windows XP SP 2.
you just need to reinstall the mentioned file and everything will be OK.
Hope this solves your problem.

The obvious question to ask is, "what software did you add or delete 2 - 3 days ago? Perhaps someone has loaded something that changed your operating system. In other words, what has changed?

P.S. Have you considered doing a virus check?

Good luck!