On January 28, 2003 02:45 pm, "pfsarli wrote:

> I had an INTERBASE 6.01 server running on my W2K machine. Suddenly,
> one fine day, when I turned my machine on, W2K refused to run my
> server. I got the message "Error 193: %1 is not a valid Win32
> application". That happened also when I tried to run IBGuard. Well,
> after that I uninstalled and reinstalled INTERBASE 6.01, INTERBASE
> 7.0 (Trial), FIREBIRD 1.02, FIREBIRD 1.5 (Alpha) several times to no
> avail.
> Needless to say I´m frustrated. Has anyone seen this happen? How did
> you fix it?

I would bet that you have a bunged up registry entry, so it's not recognizing
the FB server, problem is that it could be a completely unrelated entry, and
when W2K starts up, the registry parser gets confused, and can't find the
service. If you have a backup of the registry from before you started
having trouble, you could try restoring that, otherwise you can always
uninstall Win2K and install a real operating system :-)