Justice Denied Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 Installing Publisher on Windows 7 corrupted system desktop files. Had to use System Restore to delete Publisher and install pre-Publisher Windows files to restore desktop files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostInTranslation Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 What exactly happened? I installed on Win7 too, but did not notice anything so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justice Denied Posted September 3, 2018 Author Share Posted September 3, 2018 After installing Publisher it opened OK. Shortly after I closed it I restarted my computer, which I do everyday to flush the memory. During the restart an error message came on the screen that system files were missing and the Start page was blank. I used System Restore to put my computer back to what it was before installing Publisher. Works fine now. I had started a list of suggested feature to add to Publisher. But I don't dare reinstall it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 9 hours ago, Justice Denied said: I had started a list of suggested feature to add to Publisher. But I don't dare reinstall it. Go for it, it may have been a one off glitch. But if not try to identify which system files it says were missing, which may help Serif understand what happened Also, when reinstalling make sure logging is switched on (instructions on the forum somewhere) To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetstorm Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Try to search "Windows 7 system file missing" etc... you'll find many many articles/posts here and there. Maybe, your windows was corrupted(but working at least), and Windows could not save it properly when doing shutdown OS. You can repair this issue by yourself(see articles etc... on internet). I'm not sure, but, it might be driver problem on your Windows system. (If you didn't setup necessary drivers for HDD, etc, on your Windows 7, Windows cannot save system file properly and it becomes corrupted.) Did you properly install INTEL files on your Windows ? I met with this trouble twice when using Windows 7 32bit(5 or 6 years ago). Do you check your eventlog ? Do you find some error reports in it ? I think it's not the problem of Affinity Publisher. Anyway, try to search it on internet, you'll find its solution. And check your eventlog, at least once or twice or thrice every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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