Thanks for helping me with this problem if there is a so called fix for it. I searched the forum and didnt see anything on this but I installed Vista Premium the other night, and today was the first day I got to launch Poser 7, it will get all the way to the loading screen and then it tells me Poser Executive file has stopped working properly and I am forced to close out the program.

I then think to myself "Self" maybe reinstall the program, but when I go to launch the program from the cd/dvd it tells me I need elevation or something along that line, is there anything I can do about this, I have even tried launching Poser 7 under Windows XP SP2 settings and the icon still gives me the same problem as above. Anyone know whats going on here?

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Thanks for the suggestions, I saw the one fix that you mentioned on that other thread, and I misread it, I wasnt looking to reinstall but figured what the hell. I put the poser 7 disc in and it wont install from the main menu, it seems for me to hang up, so I browse the cd and go in through the installer folders and still the same thing. Its great how there isnt a patch for me to get my money back on my credit card from microsoft, because just like music soon as you open it you purchased it. So needless to say I am quite upset that microsoft releases such a buggy program, I dont remember this many problems with XP when it launched.

Quote - I dont remember this many problems with XP when it launched.

I do.  I remember the entire fiasco when the XP SP2 first hit and it was the version for Network Admins only but people were downloading like crazy and then griping when the install went south.   Back then, I got a new computer and ordered XP Pro as the OS.  This time I'll be waiting for a while before upgrading.

yeah i do remember that now, though I already had xp and if memory serves me correct I allowed my pc to download sp2 when it updated. Now the interesting thing is that I have been fooling around trying to get poser 7 to work tonight and decided on a hunch to grab the DVD I installed the poser 7 file to while I waited for e-frontier to send me the cd, I extracted it onto my desktop and its now downloading from the dvd I made, though it hangs up on the efrontier cd/dvd. I dont quite understand it. Now I cross my fingers and hope the new install works.

Though I do hear what your saying about waiting a year or so, thats the obvious thing for all of us to do but where all so enthralled when a new windows OS comes out, and I am my own worst enemy because I will buy it and when it comes out with bugs I will be the first to complain. Though vista was supposed to come out in early 2006 I believe and then they pushed it back, with all the bugs you might think that they would have done a little bit more fixing before releasing it.

My son works for a company that provides the Dell On-Site support here in the Valley.  He went to a MS seminar a week ago and came home with Windows Vista Enterprise Edition and MS Office 2007 Pro for free (bummer).  He's been running the Vista OS for a week with no problems.  I installed my P7 on his computer just to check it out and didn't have any problems with the install.  Of course, he has a better video card that I do (he's a gamer but I'm upgrading soon) and my vid card won't support all of the Vista features but the upgrade will take care of that.

The upgrade after that will be to a dual-core processor and a new MB that can handle more RAM.  My son is trying to talk me out of my power supply but he's not getting it ... he he ... it's 550 Watts and his is only 400.

I'm watching his computer to see if he finds any bugs with Vista.  That's the biggest reason I'm waiting.  If there are any bugs, he'll find them and figure out how to fix them.  He's brilliant that way.

*I do.  I remember the entire fiasco when the XP SP2 first hit and it was the version for Network Admins only but people were downloading like crazy and then griping when the install went south.

• Installations go west, not south.   It's company profits that go north or south and, unfortunately, Microsoft's continue to go northwards.   There is a rumour, though, that the world is approximately spherical, which means that, sooner or later, Microsoft will inevitably start to head towards the penguins.

Well after the hour or so it takes to install Poser 7 depending upon your computer speed, Poser 7 still doesnt work on my machine, still says Poser Executive file has stopped working properly. Today after I wake up its either going to be totally remove Poser 7 off my computer and then re-installing or banging my head into a wall until either microsoft fixes this or efrontier comes out with a fix for it. YAY ME!

New Computer w/ 280gig Hard Drive, AMD Athelon 64 2x Dual Core Processor,
21 Wide Screen Monitor 1500.00
E-Frontiers Poser 7 SE Upgrade 150.00
Copy of Microsoft Vista Premier 159.99
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Bill Gates taking my money and leaving me with programs that dont work because of various bugs that comes as an extra bonus with Vista.........PRICELESS!!!!!!

i) Graphics card and OpenGL.

Try running Poser after Start->Run-> net stop usxms
It disables Aero so OpenGL might work better.
We need details on your graphics card BTW.

ii) Did you INSTALL P7 in admin mode? To get registry settings correct, installing with an admin account is always recomended.

Thanks for some updated info Negative, what I did was right clicked on the setup icon before re-installing, and clicked run admin. Hopefully that was the right way to do it. As for my graphics card, its a...

NVidia GeForce 6100

Now I am going to try out what you said before my reply, a quick question for anyone who knows. Is Vista having any conflicts with Poser 6, because I need Poser on my machine and I could live with Poser 6 until some sort of fix is implemented.

Okay, well I cant locate 'Run', in XP it used to be right there now its either under something else or gone completely.

Quote - ... I installed Vista Premium the other night, and today was the first day I got to launch Poser 7, it will get all the way to the loading screen and then it tells me Poser Executive file has stopped working properly and I am forced to close out the program.

I ran into the same error after installing Poser 7 under a clean Vista installation.  I came to the conclusion that it was failing because the license did not get applied during installation, and something is happening in Poser at the point of license validation.

This conclusion was reinforced by the fact that I had a backup of my old XP hard drive and I was able to successfully launch Poser 7 out of that, getting the window showing my license key at the point where the clean install fails.

I simply deleted my new Poser 7 directory and copied the old one from my backup in place, and now its working like a charm.  Obviously that doesn't help if you don't have such a backup image, but it may give someone else some ideas.

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I ran into the same error after installing Poser 7 under a clean Vista installation.  I came to the conclusion that it was failing because the license did not get applied during installation, and something is happening in Poser at the point of license validation.

This conclusion was reinforced by the fact that I had a backup of my old XP hard drive and I was able to successfully launch Poser 7 out of that, getting the window showing my license key at the point where the clean install fails.

I simply deleted my new Poser 7 directory and copied the old one from my backup in place, and now its working like a charm.  Obviously that doesn't help if you don't have such a backup image, but it may give someone else some ideas.

Funny thing is when I installed Vista it was late at night, it actually took all night to go through what it needed to do and before I installed it I never thought about backing it up, I dont know someone hit me with the stupid stick. Today I totally deleted the Poser 7 program from my harddrive, all my files where pretty much external and the funniest thing happened. It started up and got to interface and it asked me for one of the inj files from V4 I had her saved to load everytime the program loaded before all this stuff happened. Needless to say I exited the program and re-installed v4 who wasnt installed at the time because all my morphs and figs stay in the main runtime folder. So I installed her and dammit if the same problem didnt occur. Now I am back to Poser 6 which right now works, have to wait for a fix from either e-frontier or microsoft.

iTunes also had user privs problems.

I think the way that I avoided all this was that my installation was NOT clean- it was an upgrade (despite all the objection from the holy saints, it runs remarkably fast). I have 2 accounts- originally one Power user/Admin (as they call it in XP) account, and one limited account.

I suggest this:
Booting into safe mode
Logging into admin
Make new account with AS MUCH privileges as possible
Restart, boot normally, log into new account
Install P7. Try XP compatibility too.

With you (almost) on top of the "privilege" chain, installing P7 would be smooth.

mike302de, http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1559 is the current best driver for nVidia cards. You might need to copy the modified inf file and install manually through Device Manager, but everything after that is a breeze.

Yours seem to look like it was integrated into a nForce motherboard. Still, my advice for the 100.54 drivers are ALWAYS RUN IN AERO. They're finally good enough to support your system that way, and reverting back to old GUI had some devastating corruption on the screen that needed a restart.

Still, it works, and kicks the ass outta my imagination (I thought my FX5200 couldn't stand a chance with OPGL + Glass. It's like double suicide)