Question : Delphi 7 not starting

I have an installation of Delphi 7 that something happened to it an now it will not start up and give me the IDE to open projects, etc.  If I track it in Task Manager.  It starts and then goes away.  I have uninstalled and reinstalled, but no luck.  If I add the comand line switch -r using something like -rTESTING then it will come up but will be missing some of the installed packages from before.

My question is there a log or a way to have it create a log to see what the error is when it is started without the -r switch.  I'm hoping I can bring back most of my original configuration rather than go back and set up everything all over again, especially since I didn't set it up to begain with.

I had installed a trial version of Quick Reports and gotten a v4 program converted over to build under v7 with no problem.  So I started on another v4 and got an error message during a build, closed out the IDE and then this problem started.  I didn't note the message as I thought it was just a memory error or something.

Seems like there is something in the registery that is causing Delphi 7 not to open unless I force it to a new configuration (I think that is what the -r does).

I'd apprecate any ideas someone might have.

Thanks in advance,
-- Jim

Answer : Delphi 7 not starting

It seems, the latest components you have installed are cause of the problem.
What you can do:

1. You can just delete the package (*.pbl file) for the trial version of QuickReport. It is usually located at Delphi/Projects/Bpl folder

2. Also you can find and delete the corresponding key for this package in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\Delphi\7.0\Known Packages

BTW Delphi 7 already comes with QuickReport, but it isn't installed automatically:
http://delphi.about.com/cs/adptips2002/a/bltip1102_4.htm