[Win7/Opera 95]Opera does not start
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EE-SS last edited by leocg
On my Win7 Computer I have the same problem like described from another user regarding missing administrator rights, The problem has not been answerded satisfactory. The Error message only appears seldomly. Opening Opera a window opens, I can choice full screen or smaller for a few seconds, then the window closes. This happens in a 10 sec Rhythm repeatedly. The proceesor speed runs to 100 % during the open phase. I am the only user and administrator. Yesterday I deleted Opera completely which was not without problems maybe because I use it since about 25 years. It was situated in the main "program files" compartment. I installed the actual version now in the "users" compartment. The problem has not changed, Funny, my attempts to activate my new Opera membership also failed because the link tried to open Opera. My Opera versions are 95.0.4635.90 and the version before.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
I would do a test first. Make a test standalone installation of Opera 95 to a folder named "Opera Test" on your desktop and see how well that runs.
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jenster99 last edited by jenster99
@burnout426 said in [Win7/Opera 95]Opera does not start:
I would do a test first. Make a test standalone installation of Opera 95 to a folder named "Opera Test" on your desktop and see how well that runs.
Did this work for you?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
You can try a few of the older versions of 95 (the ones before 95.0.4635.90) from https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/ to see if any of them run.
You can try just standalone installations of them for now. Make sure to avoid updates to the newest 95 build like mentioned here.
You can try the 32-bit builds instead of the 64-bit builds if you too if you want.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
You can temporarily create a new user account on Windows (local account not tied to a Microsoft account), log into it and try to install/run Opera 95 there to see if there's any difference.
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EE-SS last edited by
Win 7 is a 32 bit system. I don't think there is a correlation to the user-account I use because there are no other signs of collision between softwares and administratorship. Moreover the first system which made problems was installed for any user. The problem lies deeper, maybe on the Windows side. I don't own a Microsoft account. I have the installation file 95.0.4635.84 of September 2023 stored. Since this is probably the version starting the problems I will try to find an older version. Anyway thank you for the advice.
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EE-SS last edited by
Before my last post I thougt I had installed Opera 95.0.4635.46 with Setup.exe. The version I deleted via Windows program removal appeared as version 90. Maybe the Setup automatically took the newest version?? The I tried the 4561.50_Autoupdate.exe.
The installer had no question, I found the installation in the folder where I keep my older software installation files (on another disk partition). The program opened, funny that all the bookmarks I thought were deleted, appeared again. But it is not working properly. It claims a missing opera_elf.dll and asks for a manual installation. What was wrong with my clicking on Autoupdate? Clicking on a bookmark a prompt "side crashed, try again" appears. -
burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@EE-SS The autoupdate file is not meant for the user to run. It's meant for the updater to run with certain command-line switches. Also, the autoupdate can only patch files for the previous build. Your install folder is probably all messed up now.
Best to wipe out the install folder and reinstall (with whichever version you want to test) .
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@EE-SS said in [Win7/Opera 95]Opera does not start:
I don't think there is a correlation to the user-account I use because there are no other signs of collision between softwares and administratorship. Moreover the first system which made problems was installed for any user.
There might not be, but if you want to rule it out, you can check.
But, yes, it seems like Windows is messed up in some way.
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EE-SS last edited by
@burnout426 I deleted the version 4561 and tried to install it again. with the Setup. I refused to install a newer version, installed as standalone and got - the newest 4635.90. Don't know where it came from again. The same happened a few days ago. With the administrator question and clapping windows...
Now I found in my users folder under AppData, local, programs another version of the newest.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@EE-SS See https://reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/clean_opera_from_windows/ for how to clean up all Opera installs and install fresh so that you only have one if you want.
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EE-SS last edited by
@burnout426 Thanks for the informations. I followed the desinstallation advices including registry cleaning, and again installed version 4561 and afterwards 4635 with the same result. With the older version pages crash (not the internet connection, update data were collected without asking), with the newest clapping windows.
So Goodbye Opera (at least on this computer)
