[Dx4win] W3LL DX4WIN Will Not Start

[Bud Governale]

I had another issue with DX4WIN not starting:
The DX4WIN update was successfully made yesterday.
Today after a computer reboot and attempted restart of DX4WIN the below
message popped up.
"Failed reading The Country File".

The file that failed was the 14 February Country.dat file.
As Administrator it was replaced with the 01 February country.dat file.
Followed the same procedure as reported above to fix the problem.

Please, how to prevent this from happening again?

73,

Bud W3LL
W3LL at ARRL.NET



On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 3:24 PM Bud Governale <w3llbud at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's how the country.dat issue was resolved.
>
> As the Administrator, the country.dat file was removed from the DX4WIN
> Save folder.
> As non Administrator a 01 February 2022 country.dat file was copied into
> the DX4WIN Save folder.
>
> This different country.dat file allowed DX4WIN to start normally with no
> issue.
>
> I suspect during the DX4WIN "Check For Updates" process the country.dat
> file was downloaded and installed in DX4WIN as a protected file. Just a
> guess.
>
> 73,
>
> Bud W3LL
> W3LL at ARRL.NET
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Bud Governale <w3llbud at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 1:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dx4win] W3LL DX4WIN Will Not Start
> To: Paul van der Eijk <pvandereijk at gmail.com>
> Cc: Bud Governale <w3llbud at gmail.com>
>
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> The country file was not removed from the save directory.
> Country.dat 2/3/2022 6,536 kb is still in the save directory.
> I cannot delete or change it.
>
> If I switch to administrator I can run DX4WIN.
> BUTI never ever remain as administrator.
>
> How do I fix this?
>
> 73,
>
> Bud W3LL
>
> I
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 12:26 PM Paul van der Eijk <pvandereijk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Bud,
>>
>> Your country file was removed by a virus checker;
>>
>> You likely have an older copy in your Backups sub-directory.
>> Copy the file country.dat to the Save sub-directory.
>>
>> Tell the virus checker to ignore the DX4WIN directory
>>
>> Start DX4WIN
>>
>> Do Help | Check for Updates to get the latest files.
>>
>> --Paul
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 11:30 AM Bud Governale <w3llbud at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> W3LL DX4WIN Will Not Start
>>> DX4WIN
>>> Bud Governale <w3llbud at gmail.com>
>>> Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 9:07 PM
>>> to DX4WIN, bcc: me
>>> When trying to start DX4WIN I get an Error Message saying;
>>> "Failed reading The Country File".
>>>
>>> When I hit OK to the above error message I get another window that says
>>> "dx4win.exe"
>>> An Error Occurred In The Application.
>>>
>>> Click on the bug report.
>>> The Bug Report says Exception Number 1
>>> Exception Class EAccessViolation
>>> Exception Message: "Access violation at address 00404CA6 in module
>>> "dx4win". Read of address 04fffffC.
>>>
>>> This failure to start last happened in April 2020. No one had a solution
>>> that worked. Had to do a clean reinstall and lost too much in the Save
>>> folder where I stored the info need to preserve access to LOTW and other
>>> important information.
>>>
>>> Hopefully more than two years later there is a fix to get running again
>>> without starting from scratch,
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Bud W3LL
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>> --
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> DX4WIN logging software
>> Paul van der Eijk, KK4HD
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>>
>>