running on windows 7

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 28 October 2010, wdutcher wrote:
> Anyone have a solution to the missing dll question?  I was up and running
>  on 2.2.9 without any issue for about a month.  Can't think of what I
>  changed, but yesterday I started getting missing dll errors (the error
>  message box pops up a number of time, then gnucash comes up).  The
>  gnucash.trace file contents follow.
> 
> 
> *   WARN <gnc.module> Failed to dlopen() 'C:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\lib\gnucash\libgncmod-business-backend-file.dll': The
> specified module could not be found.
> *   WARN <gnc.module> Failed to dlopen() 'C:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\lib\gnucash\libgncmod-business-gnome.dll': The specified
> module could not be found.
> *   WARN <gnc.module> Failed to dlopen() 'C:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\lib\gnucash\libgncmod-dialog-tax-table.dll': The specified
> module could not be found.
> *   WARN <gnc.module> Failed to dlopen() 'C:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\lib\gnucash\libgncmod-hbci.dll': The specified module could
> not be found.
> *   WARN <gnc.module> Failed to dlopen() 'C:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\lib\gnucash\libgncmod-ofx.dll': The specified module could
>  not be found.
> *   WARN <gnc.module> Failed to dlopen() 'C:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\lib\gnucash\libgncmod-qif-0.dll': The specified module could
> not be found.
> *   WARN <gnc.module> Failed to dlopen() 'C:\Program Files
> (x86)\gnucash\lib\gnucash\libgncmod-qif-import.dll': The specified module
> could not be found.
> *   WARN <qof.engine> [guid_init()] only got 2144 bytes.
> The identifiers might not be very random.
> *   WARN <gnc.module> Could not locate module
> gnucash/import-export/qif-import interface v.0
> *   WARN <gnc.app-util> Could not spawn perl: Failed to execute child
> process (Invalid argument)
> 
How are you starting GnuCash ? Did you pin it to the taskbar ? That is known 
not to work in Windows 7.
Can you start GnuCash from the desktop icon that was created or via the start 
menu -> all programs -> gnucash ?

Geert