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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 02 2009 - 10:26:13 CDT

Hi,
  From your description, it sounds like you have another
package on your machine that has installed a conflicting version
of the Tcl/Tk libraries, and has put their (conflicting) versions
into the global Windows DLL search path such that they override
the ones VMD intends to use. You can determine if this is the case
by searching for other Tcl/Tk libs like this:
  cd c:\
  dir /s tcl*.dll

If you see any other than the ones in the VMD installation
directory, then that's a likely cause of your problem.
The other package(s) that have done this are at fault, as
they should _not_ be putting their own DLLs into the global
library search path. In any case, try that out and let me know
what turns up. I am working on making a special build of VMD
that uses statically linked Tcl/Tk libs specifically to avoid
this problem which has become much more prevalent recently due to
the actions of a few poorly packaged applications that are popular
in our field...

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 08:57:00PM -0600, Ronald Salesky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed a copy of VMD for my home laptop and VMD
> crashes right after launch. The OS is WinXP media center
> edition. System memory 1 GB. I've tried the suggestions to
> update the graphics driver w/ no improvement. I also set
> the environment variable VMDSIMPLEGRAPHICS to 1 also w/ no
> improvement.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron
>
> PS: graphics driver is Intel 945GM Express chipset. Not
> the world's hottest laptop, but I just want to go through
> the manuals at home to increase my VMD knowledge for the
> real research at university. 

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