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scraxe
Level 2

Authoring Tool has stopped working

2012 Express was working fine yesterday.
A big Windows 7 Pro update occurred this morning when I switched machine on.
Now completely refuses to run with 'Authoring tool has stopped working' crash.

Have reinstalled 2012 Express, restarted machine etc, no difference still refuses to run.

Any ideas anyone, I'm pretty certain it was the Windows update this morning that caused this.

Thanks
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DebbieL
Level 17

We are actively looking into the incompatibility with many versions of InstallShield and Microsoft's recent security update to IE (KB 2962872). Further information and updates will be available on the InstallShield 2014 Sticky.
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danritt
Level 2

This problem also effects InstallShield Premier 2013 and InstallShield Premier 2014
Same issues. It was working yesterday. Installing and re-installing does not help.
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DebbieL
Level 17

Right. Uninstalling and reinstalling InstallShield is not expected to resolve the problem.
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georgelennon
Level 2

danritt wrote:
This problem also effects InstallShield Premier 2013 and InstallShield Premier 2014
Same issues. It was working yesterday. Installing and re-installing does not help.


Yes, also InstallShield Premier 2014 has this problem.
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WCESARI
Level 2

I have installed the InstallShield 2014 Express Edition,in trial version but I have the same problem.
I look forward to some help.
Walter 😞
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WCESARI
Level 2

WCESARI wrote:
I have installed the InstallShield 2014 Express Edition,in trial version but I have the same problem.
I look forward to some help.
Walter 😞


I solved the problem 🙂 , uninstalled the Windows patch fix KB2962872, and disabled the Windows Update. This is the tempory solution, I wait the definitive solution with patch fix
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Yaroslav1
Level 2

Same issue with InstallShield 2012 Premier after some windows updates.
Res-installation and patching didn't help..
I even wanted to install IS on another PC but it's not possible to return licences since application is crushing at start
Let's see if uninstall KB 2962872 can help
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JanS48
Level 2

Un-installing KB 2962872 worked for me on InstallShield Pro 2012 Spring

Yaroslav1 wrote:
Same issue with InstallShield 2012 Premier after some windows updates.
Res-installation and patching didn't help..
I even wanted to install IS on another PC but it's not possible to return licences since application is crushing at start
Let's see if uninstall KB 2962872 can help
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Justin123456789
Level 2

scraxe wrote:
2012 Express was working fine yesterday.
A big Windows 7 Pro update occurred this morning when I switched machine on.
Now completely refuses to run with 'Authoring tool has stopped working' crash.

Have reinstalled 2012 Express, restarted machine etc, no difference still refuses to run.

Any ideas anyone, I'm pretty certain it was the Windows update this morning that caused this.

Thanks


The fix for this issue would be to roll back all Windows updates from 7/9/2014 but I'm sure you know that already.

As a suggestion to all developers in the community always prevent Windows updates on Dev machines.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/turn-automatic-updating-on-off#turn-automatic-updating-on-off=windows-7
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BizerbaDev
Level 6

Will the mentioned sticky also name a solution as soon as there is one (I'm mean except for uninstalling a patch)?
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m_herdering
Level 2

Un-installing KB 2962872 appears to have worked on InstallShield Pro 2013 on my Win 7 x64 PC.

Thank you for this thread.
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DebbieL
Level 17

Flexera Software has created an interim solution. Learn more. (http://www.flexerasoftware.com/landing/Microsoft-Security-Update-IS-AR-KB2962872.html)
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