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URL Snooper - WIN98/ME Crashes - possible workaround

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mouser:
someone just posted on another forum a workaround they found for url snooper crashing on win98:

It involved deleting this registry entry:

--- ---HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\Locales\C:\Program Files\URLSnooper2\URLSnooper.exe
If anyone with the win98/me crashes wants to try that and let us know if it works it would be nice..
meanwhile ill try to find out why and a more official fix.

dotdot:
on win98SE:

I wanted to try out url snooper about 6 months ago, but never really got it working. I think I managed to get one or two urls, but only while reinstalling  or somesuch all the while. I discarded it as extremely flakey (despite the gui and menu making a good impression).

Having forgotten these old problems, I tried again recently, with similar frustration; but this new Borland tip saved the day. I can run the (rather undiscerning) .reg file
____________________________
REGEDIT4

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\Locales]
____________________________
before starting urlsnooper.

With this preamble it starts up ok, running as task "URL Snooper".

Without this preamble all I get is an hourglass for about 10s: no error messages, no window, and task "Urlsnooper" is left running. After lots of such hourglass failures there are lots of "Urlsnooper"s still running.

mouser:
Ok great!!
Now that I have this confirmed to fix the problem I can figure out why and make it a permanent fix that doesnt need the registry hack.  Thanks for the info and soon there will be a version that doesn't need this.

dotdot:
Your'e welcome.

It would be better to delete only the data item whose name is the urlsnooper path.
To do this you have to know to double up the backslashes.

However, having stumbled upon this at lingobit I tried changing the value instead.

Replacing "EXE with "" had no effect; it gets reinstated.

But replacing "EXE" with "DLL" provokes an error message on startup:
  title: 'Localizer Error'  text: 'Language "German" is not found'  button: 'OK'
On pressing 'OK' the normal url snooper window appears (using English).
The registry entry retains the "DLL" value, so this modification doesn't need repeating.

It probably imagines I want  "German"  because my LCID in ControlPanel/International is 807.
But my win98SE is 409 and I expect English.

JonBoy:
...I can figure out why and make it a permanent fix that doesnt need the registry hack.  Thanks for the info and soon there will be a version that doesn't need this.
-mouser (March 01, 2007, 06:56 AM)
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Ermmm, I'm sure it'll be released WIR (When It's Ready) but might that be anytime soon? (Looking for a version that runs on WinME.)

Thanks.

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