Subj : fresh new install runtime error 216
To   : Ulrich Schroeter
From : Martin Foster
Date : Thu Dec 02 2021 09:36:43

Hello Ulrich!

*** Thursday 02.12.21 at 7:48:43, Ulrich Schroeter wrote to Tim Schattkowsky:

 US>>> to install a fresh new winpoint installation I have to unpack wp2005b5
 US>>> and later replace the executable with the winpoint375 executable,
 US>>> correct?
 TS>> Yep.

 US>>> so I've tried ... extracted the wp2005b5 package and starting setup exe
 US>>> ... all I get is a runtime error 216 any hints ?
 TS>> Not really. Works here in various Win10 x64 installations including my
 TS>> desktop with the latest patches and various VMs. Anything special about
 TS>> that VM?

 US> 2 fresh new Win10 Pro installations:

 US> a. Host  Win10 Pro 64bit, Build 17763.1577
 US> b. Guest Win10 Pro 32bit, Build 19042.1348

 US> on top of a lenovo l560, 64bit, 8gb ram
 US> vmguest:  1gb win10pro 32bit

I have very little experience with VMWare, I've almost always used VirtualBox
for running stuff in VM's. If I were going to run Win10 in a VM, I would most
definitely give it far more RAM than 1Gb, I would probably give it 3Gb. Perhaps
you should try increasing the amount of RAM you're allocating to the VM.

The one thing that's really puzzling me here is that you say you can't get
setup.exe to run under Win10(x64) on bare metal ???

The last time I ran setup.exe(from wp2005b5), I ran it on Win10(x64)(21H1) and
I had no problems whatsoever.

Regards,
Martin

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