I'm having a problem with portable gaim crashing on my home PC (running Win XP home edition). The splash screen is displayed, I get an hourglass and then nothing happens. I've tried downloading a fresh zip and installing it, and it doesn't seem to work. I had no problem with it until last night. I had regular gaim installed on the same machine as well, and now that won't start, either. I've tried removing GTK and completely reinstalling. Any ideas what's going on?
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Try removing the Gaim profile from the non-portable install -- it resides in %appdata%\.gaim
That happened on my laptop once after something went a bit wonky. It actually caused all GTK-based apps to crash. Basically, uninstall Gaim and GTK+. Then delete the C:\Program Files\Gaim and C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK directories. Then reinstall it. That's what did it for me. (This won't affect anything in your profile, but you will have to reinstall plugins)
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