Subject Re: Memory Access Violation on dBase Plus startup
From Joe Torres <jxt@miamidade.gov>
Date Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:33:22 -0400
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

I have the same problem using when using MS Access and Dbase 11 but the problem does not surface when using Dbase 10.

Joe

Marc Hamelin Wrote:

> Hi everyone, it's been a long time I've posted something on these newsgroups...  Way too busy to browse...
>
> Anyway, I need help because I'm stuck.  I don't know why, but all of a sudden, every time I start dBase Plus 2.8 on my Windows 7 Pro 64-bit machine, I get the following error :
>
> Program Alert
> Memory Access Violation
> File:
> Routine:
> Line: 0
>
> It used to work fine for years and suddenly...  BAM !!!  Everything stops working...  I trie to reboot, uninstall and reinstall the program, going as far as deleting folders and temp files and even dBase registry entries, but I still get the same error, over and over again...  I thought maybe it was a memory conflict with another program, so I booted up in Safe Mode, but I got the same error...  I even disabled my anti-virus program...
>
> I read somewhere on the newsgroup that running PLUS.exe in Compatibility mode by selecting Windows 98 helps solving memory access violation error, but that too didn't work...
>
> I'm at a complete loss here... Anybody has a suggestion ?