On installation - program has performed an illegal operation

[Noel S Pamfree]

I've just installed a copy of Publisher 97 on a friend's computer running
under Windows 98.

The installation completed without a hitch.

However when I click on the publisher icon the program won't run and I get
the message that says it has performed an illegal action and has to close?

Any ideas will be gratefully received.

Noel (UK)

 

[Budget Print Center]

usu. a memory error.. cleanup, scandisk and defrag... still happening?

 

[Mary Sauer]

Can you open Publisher in safe mode? If you can then the printer driver is probably
causing problems.

 

[Noel S Pamfree]

I tried this but sadly to no effect.

In my desperation I found that the program runs ok from the CD by running
MSPUB.EXE so I deleted this file on the hard disk and copied another copy
from the CD. (I had already removed and re-installed it 3 times) It works!
I don't know why it wouldn't run from the installed copy.

There is only one slight problem now and that is when you start Publisher 97
now you are met with a dialogue box saying "Publisher cannot open this file.
This is not a publisher file." but if I click on the OK button everything is
fine?

I think it must be a corrupted template is there an equivalent of word's
normal.dot in publisher that I can delete and create new one?

Thanks,

Noel