I am beta testing a Windows application, and two users, so far, complain that running the installer displays that message: "This app can't run on your PC. To find a version for your PC, check with the software publisher."
The installer is generated on macOS 11.6.5 (Intel) with makensis v3.08, driven by cmake 3.22.2.
One user had the same build of Windows 11 as I do, and got the error. I don't.
They both have a x64-based PC.
The installer that is causing the problem can be downloaded there:
https://twistedwave.com/download/TwistedWave-Installer-27.0.12.exe
What could cause this message to appear?
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I’m trying to install IBM Watson Studio Desktop and running installation as administrator. Yet, when I launch the program, it says that I need to set up the program as an Administator. What’s going on?
I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the program several times and keep receiving the same error message when I launch the program.
I’m on a Dell Windows laptop.
Any ideas?
I am compiling my code using 32-bit compiler running on a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional. My programs run flawlessly on all recent versions of Windows up to and including Windows 8. The programs are being installed on dozens of PC, different brands, different hardware - all under Windows 7, either 32 or 64 bit. Everything works fine. No virtual boxes. Not even a need to play with compatibility modes. Compile, copy file to destination folder, double-click - everything works!
On two occasions (so far) we've had the following error message popping up on certain laptops, in a completely reproducible manner:
"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."
It always happened on the same laptops it had happened before.
It appears that some OS configurations just happen to be messed up, and this message is triggered.
How can I avoid this error message? Which Windows settings can be adjusted?
I'm trying to install Enthought Canopy 1.4.1 64-bit on Windows 7 Professional with Service Pack 1 and have confirmed the MD5 hash of my file download matches the reference value on the Enthought website.
Double clicking the installer brings up an error message:
"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."
However, the system information in the control panel indicates it is a 64-bit operating system.
I also tried right clicking and using "Run as administrator" and get a different error message:
"Windows cannot find 'C:\path to my desktop\canopy-1.4.1-win-64.msi.exe'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again."
Canopy 1.4.1 32-bit also gives me the exact same behavior. Any ideas about what might be wrong?
Responded via Enthought Support, but copying here for the record. The second error message states the downloaded file is named "canopy-1.4.1-win-64.msi.exe", which implies the user's browser appended '.exe' onto an already valid '.msi' installer (the Enthought webpage only supplies MSI installers for Windows). Typically, this unwanted addition occurs when downloading Windows installers from within a non-Windows environment (mostly observed with Chrome on OS X).
Solution should be to remove the '.exe' portion in the filename and retry the installation.
I've been working with the Windows Phone SDK 7.0 for a long time on my computer. Now I installed the SDK 7.1 (RC) and for some reason I can't start the emulator. I'm getting this error:
Error: The saved-state file C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\XDE{4321-43-432-432-432343234}.dess is corrupt. Please delete the corrupted saved state file and then retry.
I tried suggestions from this article. But they didn't help. Also I tried reinstalling Windows Phone SDK.
Any thoughts how to fix it?
What I'd try:
Open a Windows Explorer window with the file shown.
Delete the file.
Launch the emulator.
Wait for the error message. If there is no error message and the emulator is working, congratulations!
Refresh the Windows Explorer window.
Is the appropriate .dess file restored into the folder? If so, then the file that is restoring the .dess file is corrupt. Reinstall the SDK until it works.
If this doesn't work, do this:
Figure out how your computer is different from the average developer's computer. Did you install some funky customization software? Did you mess up your registry?
Eliminate the differences that you can eliminate - e.g. undo any changes to the WP7 related area of your registry, find and eliminate any viruses {duh!}, kill any nonnecessary background apps like volume managers or printer software, and redownload the installer for the SDK {sometimes the installers are corrupt.}
Install it as a different user. This is the simple equivalent of some of the above steps.
Remember:
The SDK is still RC, so there may be some bugs.
After installing the SDK for the 500th time, it may be time to try something different.
Always install the x64 version on an x64 PC and the x86 version on an x86 PC.
I recently had to reinstall the OS on my dev box and I am now in the process of reinstalling various applications. I had previously installed the WP7 SDK without any problems but unfortunately I'm having problems this time around. The only project type I have available in the Silverlight for Windows Phone category is one that I downloaded from the online templates section.
When I try to open it or any of the WP7 projects I created previously I get a "The project type is not supported by this installation." error. I am not sure what I am missing. I have followed the three steps listed here so I've installed the SDK, the Dev Tools and the Dev Tools fix. The installation of VS2010 itself seems to be fine as I can create ASP.NET and Silverlight applications and run them without any problems.
Has anyone encountered something like this before?
Edit: I have installed Service Pack 1 for VS 2010 but that hasn't helped unfortunately.
Edit: I have also re-installed the Windows Phone Dev Tools and that installation reported no errors but I still get no projects under the Silverlight for Windows Phone category.
Try opening a visual studio command prompt and typing:
devenv /ResetSkipPkgs
I have thankfully resolved this. Last night I uninstalled everything and reinstalled again but this time I made sure to right-click on each executable and select "Run as administrator". That seems to have done the trick as my existing WP7 projects are compiling and running successfully and I can create new ones too. I did run into two error messages however -
"Zune software is not launched. Retry after making sure that Zune software is launched". I got around this initially by setting the target to Windows Phone 7 Emulator instead of Windows Phone 7 Device in the target dropdown on the main toolbar.
"Error: Connection failed because of invalid command-line arguments." I got around this by rebooting as mentioned here.