XY and rescue discs

[Mesh]

I discovered to my great dissappointment, that XY did not work when used on a machine booted with a rescue disc. I tried BartPE discs (as you would have with Kaspersky rescue discs), as well as WinBuilder LiveXP discs.

On BartPE, there is simply no response whatsoever when you run XY.

On WinBuilder LiveXP, attempting to run XY yielded a Run Time Error 50003.


Now, I know that XY requires MSVBVM60.DLL, but having that in XY's app directory did not fix these issues. Are there any other support files that XY needs in a case like this, or is it simply that XY will not work in a rescue disc environment at all?

[admin]

Now, I know that XY requires MSVBVM60.DLL, but having that in XY's app directory did not fix these issues. Are there any other support files that XY needs in a case like this, or is it simply that XY will not work in a rescue disc environment at all?

It will surely work. But I can't tell you how. Did you try to register MSVBVM60.DLL -- it's needed on some OSs.

[Mesh]

It will surely work. But I can't tell you how. Did you try to register MSVBVM60.DLL -- it's needed on some OSs.

I put a copy in XY's directory, but I didn't do any more than that.

[jacky]

I don't know nothing about WinBuilder LiveXP, but I have a BartPE CD with XY on it, so that can be done. It might have been discussed before, but I admit I was to lazy to search. What I seem to remember is that XY has some dependencies that needs to be addressed in order to work on such an environment, and it goes beyond the VB runtime.

I believe there's some need for IE (due to its integration on the IP, etc for preview) and such components, while always there on an actual Windows, aren't there on a BartPE environment. An easy solution is to add a plugin called XPE (that should be available on the BartPE plugins sites) that will load a few more of Windows -- Note: as the name implies, that might only work for XP, so if you have another version of Windows then I don't know.

Basically XPE will load things like the actual Windows desktop, taskbar, systray, control panel, etc (which I find can be useful) and one of the side effect is that it also adds IE, thus solving the requirements for XY.

In short: making your BartPE CD, in order to have XY working you might need to add two plugins : VBruntime & XPE.

[TheQwerty]

I believe there's some need for IE (due to its integration on the IP, etc for preview) and such components, while always there on an actual Windows, aren't there on a BartPE environment.

Which brings up a point that it might be ideal if the reliance on some of these components (in particular the web/IE stuff) could be separated and listed as a "Module Feature" (do we have a less generic name to refer to these?) that could be disabled. Of course for XYHE it should remain enabled, but it would help in situations such as this.

[admin]

I believe there's some need for IE (due to its integration on the IP, etc for preview) and such components, while always there on an actual Windows, aren't there on a BartPE environment.

Which brings up a point that it might be ideal if the reliance on some of these components (in particular the web/IE stuff) could be separated and listed as a "Module Feature" (do we have a less generic name to refer to these?) that could be disabled. Of course for XYHE it should remain enabled, but it would help in situations such as this.

Since January 2009 the dependency of IE should be gone.