Published on June 21, 2005 By Daiwa In Object Desktop
I updated SDC this morning on a Win2K rig that had an existing SDC version which was relatively old (but still 2.x). After the mandatory reboot, SDC crashes on launch, triggers a Dr. Watson message and closes.

Strangely enough, I later launced SDC on my XP rig at work and got the nice MS error report message and SDC closed. I had updated SDC on the XP rig 1 or 2 days ago and had been running SDC without any problems until the first launch today.

I had another Win2K rig with an older version of SDC on it, so I decided I'd try updating that one to see if the same crash would occur. After reboot, SDC opens normally without crashing on that rig, but it defaults to the News section each time it's launched, despite having the "remember settings" option selected and closing it while in Object Desktop view.

I'm a bit stumped - now have 2 rigs on which SDC won't launch. Newsgroup server appears to be down, too - I was going to uninstall SDC, download the latest downloadable installer & let it update again, but can't for now.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Daiwa

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on Jun 22, 2005
Excellent! The repair worked...
on Jun 22, 2005
Has anybody found Musicmatch Jukebox was jacked up by the update also? I can't get the two to work when they're installed together. The rollback fixes Sdcentral, but leaves MM a mess. When I try to connect to the internet, it crashes.


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on Jun 22, 2005
Went to Add/Remove Programs, clicked on Change/Remove for SDC, got the "Unable to locate install.log file" error message.

If I can find it, where should it go - root directory or C:\Program Files\Stardock Central?

Thanks & Cheers,
Daiwa
on Jun 22, 2005
I found 3 Stardock install.log files - one in Program Files\Common Files\Stardock and one each in the WB & WFX folders. None in the SDC folder. Is the one in Common Files\Stardock the one to use?

Thanks,
Daiwa
on Jun 22, 2005
Ok, SDC just got upgraded to "c" version and all works ok now......Thanks for the speed Stardock!
on Jun 22, 2005
Thanks for the info Boss, will try it when I get home.

(Didn't follow my own 'no' advice from another post - took a chance, rolled craps)
Ok, SDC just got upgraded to "c" version and all works ok now


here's hopin
on Jun 22, 2005
Not for me! Smart setup does not work, with consequent failure to load Component Tray and DesktopX. I think I will reload a working configuration, prevent access to the internet until I can stop SDCentral updating itself. I like my Icon X and widgets and it is becoming a pain having to load them manually each time.
on Jun 22, 2005
Installing the "c" version (the one currently available for download) over the top fixed things up here. At least so far.

Cheers,
Daiwa
on Jun 22, 2005
Mebion -

Before you reconnect to the internet, you can go into Settings & have SDC prompt you before updating. I'm guessing you know that already, but just in case.

Cheers,
Daiwa
on Jun 22, 2005
I just updated SDC on my WinXP Pro machine and now almost nothing works. If I try to lauch add/remove programs I get a rundll32.exe error. I booted in safe mode and was able to run the rollback described above but when I rebooted same problem. I am currently doing a custom uninstall because an automatic failed. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can make sure everything is removed?

Thanks in advance.
on Jun 22, 2005
I am still getting the rundll32.exe error after removing sdc.
on Jun 22, 2005
"C" version works for me. FYI I upgraded over the "default" 205 version available for download from https://www.stardock.com/products/sdcentral/ and the new version is working fine (so far)

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on Jun 22, 2005
2.09c.342

was gonna follow Boss's advice and do the repair 1st - clicked on SDC by habit, it's didn't close but said there was an update... and it took
on Jun 22, 2005
upgraded to c everything ok it took fine
on Jun 22, 2005
I may have spoken too soon.

I read Riahon's post Link and decided to give it a try. Now I have the same problem Digital 2 won't download - fails - and when I try to delete it, it just re-queues.

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