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Darwin:
Hi all,

I'm trying to use a 16-bit program (3-D morphometrics visualizer called Morpheus) that I have run under WinXP Pro Sp-2 successfully in the past (August 2004) on the very notebook that I am writing on right now. It's always worked flawlessly but in the intervening years something has gone awry and I can no longer click anywhere on the main menu bar (File/Edit/View, etc.) without the program shutting down. The error message (I had to record the crash so that I could isolate the frame to read the message!) is pretty uninformative:

16-bit Program under XP - woe, woe, woe is me...

I've completely removed the original installation and have reinstalled the application. I've confirmed that it works on a different XP Pro machine and have spent some fruitless hours trying to determine if I am missing an essential dll. This may very well be the case, but I'm buggered if I can figure it out!

So, my friends, I turn to the donationcoder community in hope that someone has any insight!

Thanks,

Mike

PS Morpheus has a command line component that still works on my machine... even from within the GUI version.

Lashiec:
I don't have much experience running 16-bit applications in Windows, but you could try to run the software under Dependency Walker. To do this, install the program (ZIP file, so it's quite clean), and select "Profile -> Start profiling", select with the executable of the program and let it run. You could also check all the boxes if you wish. At least, the software would determine if something is missing or not.

And, as always, you have Virtual PC :D

Grorgy:
just a general thing, window blinds has an unfortunate habit of causing a bit of havoc with some programs so if you are running that then tell it to ignore morpheus

Darwin:
Thanks for the suggestions. Lashiec, I'll give dependency walker a try, though the author states that it won't work on 16 bit programmes, but perhaps he means it won't run under 16 bit versions of windows? I have run Process Explorer, which shows the dlls in use by m-gui.exe but doesn't indicate whether or not any are missing!

Grorgy - I've had WindowBlinds installed in the past, but uninstalled it several months ago. I wonder if I need to do a thorough search for orphaned WB files? I'll do both of the above and report back.

Ta.

Darwin:
Nope - Dependency Walker doesn't like 16-bit modules, sadly. Still, I'll take a run at the Virtual PC option - hadn't thought of it and missed it the first time I read Lashiec's post - cheers! Will also make good on my promise to look for orphaned WB files.

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