Re: PgAdmin no longer works on a "clean install" XP SP2

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Francisco Leovey <fleovey(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PgAdmin no longer works on a "clean install" XP SP2
Date: 2011-05-02 15:10:57
Message-ID: BANLkTikP8fbxwSv0mvzNuUN7GEOaxd-Apg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Francisco Leovey <fleovey(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> I installed a new XP SP2 workstation and to my surprise PgAdmin III 1.12.2
> (latest version) installs but will not run, gives weird error on start.
> (Yes, XP is still used by us. Mainly due to Mobo problems with W7).
> After a lot of testing around I discovered that it needs Microsoft Visual
> C++ redistributable installed in order to run.
> On an older version of PgAdmin (1.4.3) running on this PC prior to this,
> it was not required or Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable came included.
> It would be nice if the installer of PgAdmin 1.12.2 warns about this.
>
>
1.12.3 is the latest release... and it does come with the VC++ runtime. We
have heard of a couple of cases where it failed to install properly with
1.12.2 though.

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