Re: My old CCC GUI refuses to show up. :(

In alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ant wrote:
> > In alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Ant wrote:
> >>> In alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> Ant wrote:
> >>>>> Oh, I got netfx_setupverifier v6.0.3790 (7/31/2015) downloaded. Its 
> >>>>> verification results said error code 0 for all of its detected versions:
> >>>>> 2.0 SP2
> >>>>> 3.0 SP2
> >>>>> 3.5 SP1
> >>>>> 4 Client
> >>>>> 4 Full
> >>>>> 4.5
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I guess no v4.8 since it is newer.
> >>>> So it's not really a damaged .net then.
> >>>> Is that your conclusion ?
> >>> Maybe? .NET checker said everything looked OK.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Have you checked Event Viewer for an application error ?
> >>> I can't find anything interesting except that ACEEventLog that I showed 
> >>> in https://pastebin.com/raw/MBJP13hc in my original post.
> > 
> >> Your problem is font related, to start with.
> > 
> >> Something to check here.
> > 
> >> https://faithlife.codes/blog/2009/11/how_to_crash_every_wpf_application/
> > 
> >>    "We traced this to having an illegal path char
> >>     in one of the fonts listed in the
> > 
> >>     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts
> > 
> >>     registry key. To reproduce the problem, you can
> >>     simply edit one of those values on your own machine
> >>     and add a colon, pipe, or any other illegal path
> >>     character to one of the values. Now, any WPF application
> >>     on your system will crash as soon as it attempts
> >>     to display its first UI."
> > 
> > I don't see anything invalid? Just lots of fonts and some very old ones 
> > from 1998?!
> > 
> > Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
> > 
> > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]
> > "Arial (TrueType)"="arial.ttf"
> ...
> > "Unispace-Bold (TrueType)"="unispace bd.ttf"
> > 
> > Directory of c:\windows\fonts
> > 
> > 06/10/2009  12:43 PM            10,976 8514fix.fon
> ...
> > 01/22/2002  03:22 PM            35,328 WINGDNG3.TTF

> I might try debugging this with Process Monitor, just to see
> if all the fonts in the font directory are being opened.

> The list seems to be all local fonts stored in the canonical folder c:\windows\fonts .

> I would think back to which font file was added last,
> as that might well be the bad one.

Do you mean tracking ccc.exe process only? If so, then 2.4 MB 
http://zimage.com/~ant/temp/ProcMon3.61cccEXE.7z (too much information 
for me -- yikes).


> There are WPF programs available in source form, which
> display fonts. Since I happened to be installing VS2019 Community
> anyway, this made an opportunity to import a .sln and
> use the program to try it out. At first the program didn't
> run, because Windows 10 didn't have optional .NET 3.5 installed,
> but after I used Windows Features, it started to work.
> It was the usual thing, with misleading error messages, leaving
> you to guess at the root cause.

> https://i.postimg.cc/VNSMVVX2/font-test-wpf.gif

I wonder if I can use these compiled WPF programs to try? I am not a 
(cod/programm/develop)er. :/
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