CraeteProcess failed with error 2 on upgrading pdfcreator

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Hello,

I'm having this very annoying issue on upgrading pdfcreator on an XP machine with SP3.

I succesfully installed pdfcreator 1.4.2 but when I upgrade to 1.4.3 I always (I've tried many times) obtain the following error (in italian):

"Impossible to execute the file

CreateProcess failed with error 2

the system cannot find the file specified"

The real problem is that when I try to execute a working excel containing macros that print pdf through pdfcreator library it does not work anymore!

More specifically, when I run the macro I see pdfcreator process running with 100% CPU forever and I have to manually kill it.

Thanks for your help

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Hi,

 

have you tried manually uninstalling and removing all of PDFCreators components, restarting your machine and installing afterwards?

 

regards,

 

Robin

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Yes, I've tried every combination of:

- installing 1.4.3

- uninstalling every pdfcreator component (with also manual removing of every register occurrence of pdfcreator instance)

- rebooting

- installing 1.4.2

Two strange things happen:

- even the installation of 1.4.2 now ends up wih the same error

- no problem occurs on a different machine where the only relevant difference was the SP2 installed instead of SP3

Please let me know if you need some other information.

Thanks

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Hi,

 

please post your setuplog.txt here it will help troubleshooting.

 

regards,

 

Robin

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I'm installing pdfcreator in italian and I'm not installing neither images2pdf, pdfarchitect and examples com; only pdfcreator ad ghostscript.

This is setuplog.txt after a fresh installation of pdfcreator 1.4.3 (with the same error "createprocess failed with error 2):

Error 2

 

```

----- Setup - Start: 2012-08-09 09:44:23 -----
Install PDFCreator: 1.4.3
InstallerDirectory: H:\Michele\Varie\Programmi
X64: no

Start AnalyzeCommandlineParameters
Parameter /VERYSILENT: false
Parameter /SILENT: false
Parameter /FORCEINSTALL: false
Parameter /REMOVEOPTIONS: false
Parameter /DONTINSTALLPRINTERS: false
Parameter /EXPERT: false
No Parameter /LoadInf
No Parameter /SaveInf
No Parameter /REGFile
No Parameter /PPDFile
No Parameter /Printername
End AnalyzeCommandlineParameters

OP: 1
Update: 0
Installed PDFCreator version: 0.0.0
Installed PDFCreator version is lower 1.3.1 = true
nationCode: 118
InstallPDFCreatorPrinter = true
OS: 1
AppPath: C:\Program Files\PDFCreator
InstalledPDFCreatorVersion: Not installed
DontInstallPrinters: false
SPT: false

Printerstatus before installing:
Spooler service: is running
Printermonitors [3]:
Standard TCP/IP Port
Microsoft Document Imaging Writer Monitor
Local Port

Printerports [10]:
Microsoft Document Imaging Writer Port:
COM1:
COM2:
COM3:
COM4:
FILE:
LPT1:
LPT2:
LPT3:
XPSPort:

Printerdrivers (Windows 4.0) [0]:

Printerdrivers (Windows NT x86) [9]:
PR2E Emul. ibm4722 PARALLEL Text Only
Microsoft XPS Document Writer
Microsoft Office Document Image Writer Driver
IBM 4722 Text Only
HP Universal Printing PCL 6 (v5.2)
HP Universal Printing PCL 5
HP Color LaserJet 3700 PCL 6
CompuprintSP40Plus
CompuprintSP40

Printerdrivers (Windows x64) [0]:

Printerdrivers (Windows IA64) [0]:

Printerdrivers (Windows NT Alpha_AXP) [0]:

Printers [4]:
PR2E_CPR_printmanager
Microsoft XPS Document Writer
Microsoft Office Document Image Writer
IBM4722_printmanager

Printerdriver-Directory (Environment: Windows 4.0):
Result: Success = C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\WIN40

Printerdriver-Directory (Environment: Windows NT x86):
Result: Success = C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86

Install printerport:
Portname : pdfcmon
Result: Success

InstallMonitor:
Monitorname : pdfcmon
Environment : Windows NT x86
Result: Success

Install printerdriver for Win2kXP2k3 (32bit):
Drivername : PDFCreator
Environment : Windows NT x86
Result: Success

InstallPrinter:
Printername: PDFCreator
Drivername : PDFCreator
Portname : pdfcmon
Result: Success

Printerstatus after installing:
Spooler service: is running
Printermonitors [4]:
pdfcmon
Standard TCP/IP Port
Microsoft Document Imaging Writer Monitor
Local Port

Printerports [11]:
pdfcmon
Microsoft Document Imaging Writer Port:
COM1:
COM2:
COM3:
COM4:
FILE:
LPT1:
LPT2:
LPT3:
XPSPort:

Printerdrivers (Windows 4.0) [0]:

Printerdrivers (Windows NT x86) [10]:
PDFCreator
PR2E Emul. ibm4722 PARALLEL Text Only
Microsoft XPS Document Writer
Microsoft Office Document Image Writer Driver
IBM 4722 Text Only
HP Universal Printing PCL 6 (v5.2)
HP Universal Printing PCL 5
HP Color LaserJet 3700 PCL 6
CompuprintSP40Plus
CompuprintSP40

Printerdrivers (Windows x64) [0]:

Printerdrivers (Windows IA64) [0]:

Printerdrivers (Windows NT Alpha_AXP) [0]:

Printers [5]:
PDFCreator
PR2E_CPR_printmanager
Microsoft XPS Document Writer
Microsoft Office Document Image Writer
IBM4722_printmanager

--- Systeminformation - Start ---
Windowsversion: 5.01.2600
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
Win64: false
ProcessorArchitecture: X86
.Net 2.0: true
.Net 2.0 regasm.exe:
SystemDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32
TempDir: C:\DOCUME~1\A430733\LOCALS~1\Temp\
CurrentDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32
Computername: WD90883
Username: A430733
UILanguage: 1033
Internet Explorer version: 8.0.6001.18702
Path: C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Treskit;c:\OLIMENU;c:\fndnt\bin;c:\fndnt\sys;c:\fndnt\help;w:\bin;Z:\Bin;Z:\secnew.apl\DLL;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\Blat\full
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Wbem\framedyn.dll: found
framedyn.dll: found in path
--- Systeminformation - End ---

--- Environment - Start ---
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\A430733\Application Data
CLIENTNAME=Console
CODBALIAS=DBSECNEW
CodFil=0000
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=WD90883
ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
COTRNFILE=w:\bin\TrnFiles.dat
DEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
FCPserver=S1882001
FNDBASE=C:\FNDNT\INST
FNDINST=CLIENT
FNDROOT=C:\FNDNT
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\A430733
LOGONSERVER=\\S33DCC15
MMFILE=W:\HLPFILES\HelpFile.dat
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
OS=Windows_NT
Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Treskit;c:\OLIMENU;c:\fndnt\bin;c:\fndnt\sys;c:\fndnt\help;w:\bin;Z:\Bin;Z:\secnew.apl\DLL;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\Blat\full
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.PSC1
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 1, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=15
PROCESSOR_REVISION=0401
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PSModulePath=C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\
SESSIONNAME=RDP-Tcp#1
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\WINDOWS
TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\A430733\LOCALS~1\Temp
TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\A430733\LOCALS~1\Temp
USERDNSDOMAIN=
USERDOMAIN=
USERNAME=A430733
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\A430733
VSEDEFLOGDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection
windir=C:\WINDOWS
--- Environment - End ---

----- Setup - End: 2012-08-09 09:46:35 -----

<p>I must admit that I've been forced to switch to the &quot;save as pdf&quot;&nbsp;feature of excel 2007 so by now I'm not using anymore pdfcreator.</p><p>Thanks for your support.</p>
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Printscreen of the error:

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