hello togeher,
i am using processing 1.0.5 since yesterday. Everything worked fine and i
wrote some sketches. But today processing won't start anymore, giving me
the same error as Bug 986.
http://dev.processing.org/bugs/long_list.cgi?buglist=986 which i'll quote here:

" i had this error on two windows-xp computers (pentium4 and athlonxp).
after launching processing the loading screen shows up and after about a
minute this message shows up in a windows-popup-window:
"Launch4j | An error occurred while starting the application"

after pressing ok the loading screen disappears but the javaw.exe process
is still running in the taskmanager. for every restart of processing a new
javaw.exe process starts. "

here is my "processing.exe --l4j-debug" log:
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CmdLine: G:\processing-1.0.5\processing.exe --l4j-debug
WOW64: no
Working dir: G:\processing-1.0.5\.
Bundled JRE: java
Check launcher: G:\processing-1.0.5\java\bin\javaw.exe (OK)
Add classpath: lib\pde.jar
Add classpath: lib\core.jar
Add classpath: lib\jna.jar
Add classpath: lib\ecj.jar
Add classpath: lib\antlr.jar
Launcher: G:\processing-1.0.5\java\bin\javaw.exe
Launcher args: -Xms128m -Xmx128m -classpath
"lib;G:\processing-1.0.5\java\lib\tools.jar;lib\pde.jar;lib\core.jar;lib\jna.jar;lib\ecj.jar;lib\antlr.jar"
processing.app.Base
Args length: 156/32768 chars
Error: Das angegebene Modul wurde nicht gefunden. (means stated modul
wasn't found)
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tried everything, updated java, reinstalled jave.... nothing. here's my
java version:

java version "1.6.0_14"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_14-b08)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode, sharing)

also tried version 1.0.3, same problem, changed folder name of the last
sketches

i noticed that i have no preference.txt in a personal folder, only the one
in the /lib

i am using winXP SP1 german.

any help is greatly apreciated,
thx,
Jan

sounds like a bad preferences.txt file.. do a full search of your system
for preferences.txt and remove it, then try restarting processing.

already tried this, was no help.

reinstalled xp, was an old system, fixed the prob.

thx anyway, great software!