BUG? - Cant find romcenter.ini (wont do anything after this)

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BUG? - Cant find romcenter.ini (wont do anything after this)

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Hi

I have had this problem in version 3.6.1 and 3.6.2, however 3.6.1 it was in french, now in 3.6.2 its in english, this is on Windows 7 64bit, logged in as an Administrator group user, however the installed was both UNBLOCKED and Run As Administrator on install.

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It seems to appear after i add a ROM path, the file its looking for is in the ROMCENTER install directory, however it might be trying to find something in the USER or ProgramData directories...

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Did you use the installer version or portable zipped ?
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downloaded the full .EXE file and it installed (granted was over an old install).
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Try to remove the startup.ini file in romcenter folder.
Startup.ini is for portable version, you don't need one with the installed one.
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Re: BUG? - Cant find romcenter.ini (wont do anything after t

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Renamed it, reset most of my settings, so i recreated them, seems ok, wont know until i test it more.

It appears it created a ROMCENTER folder in the root of drive D (which it was installed), nothing was in this folder so thats maybe where it was trying to find the ini file.

As a side note here, between WIndows 7 and WINdows XP, when you have about 8000 files or more your going to get HUGE problems with the Server service of the PC sharing the folder if you try to fix ROMS over a network, it locks up the "Server" service on the PC with the share, this service needs to be restarted to restore a usable PC.

This is a design flaw with Windows (infact i needed to apply a fix from Indows NT4 on WIndows 7 as that seems to have been overlooked), it appears as we use way more files accross a network, WIndows home systems (anything thats not a server) will fail with cache a lockup issues that were put in to stop home OS being used as servers (like file servers).

Just so everyone is aware.
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SFX Group wrote:This is a design flaw with Windows (infact i needed to apply a fix from Indows NT4 on WIndows 7 as that seems to have been overlooked), it appears as we use way more files accross a network, WIndows home systems (anything thats not a server) will fail with cache a lockup issues that were put in to stop home OS being used as servers (like file servers).

Just so everyone is aware.
Thanks for sharing this. Could you please be more specific (what setting you changed)? This info may be of general use to some people.

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I'll compile something later this week, however might want to be put as a "sticky" somewhere, i am a Network Specialist, these "bugs" or more to the point what are now "flaws" are driving me abit buts...
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I'm into network administration myself (among other things) so i know such things may prove to be very useful. :)

About the sticky, i'm not so sure it would be appropriate since this is not a windows networking technical forum. :) It would be nice if you manage to assemble and post some info whenever you have some time.

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The below is how Microsoft have "limited" the "Server" service (this is located in the Services part of the control panel) on all Windows home systems (that is not a “Server” OS), this service alone is the one that "serves" the shares you setup on any Windows computer newer than Windows NT4 (2000, XP, Vista, 7 and all Server OS).

This assumes you only use TCP/IP, to access the shares, and the symptoms i have noticed and how to fix them...

Windows XP service a share
When trying to access more than about 7000 files (like loading the directory into RC then it scanning them) the Windows XP OS will slow down by about 1000 times, the hard drive may look "stuck on", you can still see shares, however the desktop is super slow, the recovery here is to restart the server service in the control panel services, this will also restart the Computer service (this is fine), no system restart is needed, however you will cut of any file that was in use over the share (which by now have hung in a limbo open “not doing anything” state)


Windows 7
When trying to access more than about 7000 files (like loading the directory into RC then it scanning them) OR trying to copy a large file over 3Gb in size to or from a Windows 7 share the computer takes all shares offline, when you try to browse or see this computer in the network it tells you that you no longer have access, again restarting the server service will fix this.

There can be another problem i have notice in Windows 7, while you are accessing a share from a Windows 7 PC, if you receive the error "Not enough server storage is available to process this command.",, i bumped in to this pulling files from my Windows 7 64bit workstation to my MAC OSX system This is a symptom of the same problem above, however there is a Microsoft Registry fix for this (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK).

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/198386


The above assumes you already have sharing working with out problems, the above is in no way explaining how to setup sharing, only to help IF you have bumped in to what seems like a damaged version of Windows when really this turns out to Microsoft OS flaws.

There are many problems in getting Windows 7 to publish it shares in a standard way so Windows XP can see them, I never use the “Home Group” method, however this forum is not the place to explain share setups.
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Nice. Thanks for the detailed description. :super:

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Yes, thank you for details :clap:
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