MPLAB ver 7 Install Problem

[JohnKennedy]

Hi

I have a problem with MPLAB installation and hope someone can help me get round it.

First off I installed MPLAB and PCW on my desktop and everything works fine.

I have now decided it will be far better for me to have it on my laptop instead. this is where the problems begin. When running the MPLAB setup program I get an error right at the end saying the MPTranslater.DLL has failed to register

When I run MPLAB it comes up with an error message that just says unspecified error and nothing else. so I uninstalled and tried reinstalling only to get the same message. This time I proceeded to install PCW3.127 and the MPlab plugin.

When I run MPlab i still get the same unspecified error message and everyhting else performs as expected until you try to compile when it reports an error that the compiler selected is not installed on the machine.

i am assuming that all this is down to the DLL file not registering, I have uninstalled everything again and made sure the registry and the disk are clean of anything to do with MPLAB and CCSC but I still get exactly the same problem.

Has anyone else experienced this or can anyone suggest a work around?

The main reason for wanting it on my laptop is that I have an ICE arriving today and it will be far easier to work with my laptop than my desktop.

Oh the only difference between the two other than that is my desktop runs XP Pro where my Laptop has XP home on it, surely this wouldn't cause the problem though?

any suggestions appreciated.

thanks

JFK

[Mark]

Microchip tech support is your best bet.