Problem opening Ketarin

[ELECTRIC1]

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.

[Sphinx]

Might be an obvious question, but do you have .NET 2.0 installed on you machine?

[ELECTRIC1]

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.

[Sphinx]

do you have both the .exe and the .dll in the same folder? it sounds like ketarin can't find the .dll

[ELECTRIC1]

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?

[Sphinx]

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.

[ELECTRIC1]

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.

[Sphinx]

did you copy the zip file? or the exe and dll file that is inside the zip file?

[ELECTRIC1]

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.

[Sphinx]

perhaps you need to run as administrator? which windows are you running?

[ELECTRIC1]

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.

[Sphinx]

sorry, but i don't know what it could be then, with what you say, it should work

[shawn]

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.

[floele]

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?

[CybTekSol]

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.