ELECTRIC1 Posted April 9, 2010 Report Share Posted April 9, 2010 I am trying to improve my computer abilities and it is going slowly, in fact very slowly. I can normally solve most computer problems that I and friends have but it takes a long time. I saw a write up on Ketarin and the advantages of using it on flash drives to keep portable apps up to date. I have tried downloading it several times as a zip file, copied it, and then tried to open it. Every time a problem is flagged up saying: "Could not create or load the datebase file: The type initializer for 'System. Transactions. Diagnostics. Diagnostic Trace' threw an exception." Please go step by step. Many thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted April 9, 2010 Report Share Posted April 9, 2010 Might be an obvious question, but do you have .NET 2.0 installed on you machine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELECTRIC1 Posted May 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2010 Sorry for delay in replying but extended holiday the cause. I have checked and found that.NET 2.0 is installed on machine but still unable to open Ketarin after it is unzipped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted May 5, 2010 Report Share Posted May 5, 2010 do you have both the .exe and the .dll in the same folder? it sounds like ketarin can't find the .dll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELECTRIC1 Posted May 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2010 I downloaded the zipped folder. Copied it to open it. Both the .exe and the .dll appear in the same folder. Do you open them both at the same time, if so how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 no, no, you run the exe file, but the dll file must be in the same folder as the exe.. are you trying to run the program from inside the .zip file? sounds like it in your reply, if so, then you'll need to extract them to a regular folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELECTRIC1 Posted May 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2010 I have downloaded the zipfile. Copied it, with the .exe and .dll files in one folder. Double clicking on the .exe file the usual box appears warning that the file is from an unknown publisher, Run or Cancel. I select run and then the problem is flagged up as stated in my original post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted May 9, 2010 Report Share Posted May 9, 2010 did you copy the zip file? or the exe and dll file that is inside the zip file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELECTRIC1 Posted May 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 I have tried copying the zip file and then with the .exe and .dll file in the same folder tried to run the exe file. I have also tried to unzip the files and then tried to run the .exe file. All with the same result, as noted in post 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted May 14, 2010 Report Share Posted May 14, 2010 perhaps you need to run as administrator? which windows are you running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELECTRIC1 Posted May 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2010 Running on XP and set up as administrator on computer. I am thinking of trying to download it and open it on a friends computer an see whether that makes any difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted May 19, 2010 Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 sorry, but i don't know what it could be then, with what you say, it should work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 It sounds like you never actually extracted the zip file. You're probably using the Windows' native zip parsing to look inside, and it *looks* like it's a folder, but it behaves rather differently. Right-click on the zip file and select "extract". Follow the prompts. You'll end up looking at mostly the same thing, but both files should be extracted into a real folder now. Try again, and it should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floele Posted July 8, 2010 Report Share Posted July 8, 2010 The "warning that the file is from an unknown publisher, Run or Cancel" should NOT appear. If it does, check the file permissions. The exe file should not be flagged as "file from remote computer". Maybe try using a different extraction application. I wonder - do we maybe need an official Ketarin installer to make things simpler? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CybTekSol Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 I wonder - do we maybe need an official Ketarin installer to make things simpler? deogracia has already developed a NSIS installer script here Flo: http://ketarin.canneverbe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=478 Maybe this would work for ELECTRIC1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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