I have the same problem 2 years ago.
1. Create New User with administrativ privilegies
2. Logon to W2K with new user
3. Try to install

> 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 :-)

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