Contribute CS4 authplay.dll error on launch

Clean install of newly purchased Contribute CS4 on client system that exceeds system requirements. Upon initial launch, error RE: authplay.dll and program goes not further than initial splash screen. Can only kill the process at that point to close it.
What is the solution?

I purchased three copies of Contribute CS4 to be installed on Win XP machines. One laptop runs without errors. The two desktop machines give the error "Contribute has encountered a problem and needs to close" and "AppName: contribute.exe AppVer: 5.0.0.3264 ModName: authplay.dll
ModVer: 10.0.0.521 Offset: 00205ce6".
I ran a search for authplay.dll on the troubled systems and found multiple versions; I rolled the file back to 10.0.0.508 which I found in Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Utilities/Extendscript Toolkit CS4.
This seems to have fixed the problem, at least for now. I am able to open Contribute on all machines as of this writing (however I fully expect the Adobe Updater to undo my efforts with the file in question the next time it runs).
Hopefully this may help others.
am

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Path: /Applications/Adobe Contribute CS4/Adobe Contribute CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/Contribute
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3 ...ia.Flash Player.authplaylib 0x2f4b60f8 TThreadWait::Wait(unsigned int) + 200
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33. If you're on a mac with 2 partitions: 1 mac hd, 1 bootcamp, delete everything in the boot.ini file and copy and paste the following into it:
\[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
\[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
Obviously change the name to suit. Save it and reboot - you should be good to go now.

Hi. Your bootcamp drive should be drive C. It shouldn't matter what drive letter it is really, you make the virtual machine disk as a virtual disk saved in your documents folder and hook it in to use your physical bootcamp drive.
Ensure you've typed in the correct command and correct password. Press enter after you type in the password. You won't see it as you type it in, and you may need to wait some time afterwards before you'll see the next prompt. Leave it 2 minutes.
Sorry I've been abroad.. hope you have it worked out by now anyway mate.

Please help me. I am getting an error while launching an web start applic

I am getting the following error while launching an java web start apllication.
Exception in thread"javaWSApplicationMains"java.lan.NoClassDefFound:SimpleSerial.
The jnlp file i have used is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://zycomm:8080" href="Aeon.jnlp">
<information>
<title>Aeon HHBM Manager</title>
<vendor>ME</vendor>
<description>Aeon HHBM Manager</description>
</information>
<offline_allowed/>
<resources>
<j2se version="1.4+"/>
<jar href="aeon.jar"/>
</resources>
<application-desc main-class="Aeon_PManager" />
<component-desc/>
</jnlp>
The java code is as follows:
SimpleSerial.java
import java.io.*;
//import java.lang.*;
//import java.lang.ClassNotFoundException;
Interface class for SimpleSerial.
If you don't know what an interface is, don't worry. An interface defines the functions
that can be called by implementors of this class. Currently there are two implementors,
SimpleSerialNative, and SimpleSerialJava. There might be more in the future.
SimpleSerialNative requires the file "SimpleSerialNative.dll" to be in the same folder as your Java
project file. It's that simple.
SimpleSerialJava requires the correct installation of Sun's Javacomm communication package. It's much
more powerful, but it can be tricky for the newcomer to configure, and use.
If you have problems with one, why don't you try the other.
A VERY SIMPLE IMPLEMENTATION:
public static void main(String args[]) {
SimpleSerial ss; // delcare the SimpleSerial object
ss = new SimpleSerialNative(2); // The argument is the commport number. There is no Comm0.
ss.writeByte((byte)'a'); // write a byte to the serial port
// Give the PIC chip time to digest the byte to make sure it's ready for the next byte.
try { Thread.sleep(1); } catch (InterruptedException e) {}
ss.writeByte((byte)'!'); // write another byte to the serial port
String inputString = ss.readString(); // read any string from the serial port
System.out.println("I read the string: " + inputString);
A few important things to note:
1. When you write data to the serial port, it just writes the data, whether or not the PIC chip is
ready to receive data. There's no handshaking or signaling. If you send data and the PIC chip
isn't ready for it, it will be ignored. Some PIC chips have a hardware UART which will buffer a
few bytes of data for later retrieval. But this isn't a cure-all. If the buffer fills up, it
creates an error condition which prevents further data from being read. You need to include
custom PIC code to reset the error flag.
2 In contrast to the PIC chip, the computer has a rather large hardware buffer. If the PIC chip
sends serial data to your computer when you're not around to read it, it gets stored.
3. If you make a call to readByte(), and there's no data to be read, readByte() waits until there
is data. If you want to know how much data (if any) is available, make a call to available().
4. Conversely, if you make a call to readBytes() or readString() and there's no data to be read,
readBytes() returns a byte array of zero length, and readString() returns and empty string.
5. If you want to use Sun's JavaComm package instead of this code, subsitute your calls to
new SimpleSerialNative(2);
with
new SImpleSerialJava(2);
public interface SimpleSerial {
// These are copied right out of WINBASE.H
// Most applications should be fine with the defaults.
public static final int NOPARITY = 0;
public static final int ODDPARITY = 1;
public static final int EVENPARITY = 2;
public static final int MARKPARITY = 3;
public static final int SPACEPARITY = 4;
public static final int ONESTOPBIT = 0;
public static final int ONE5STOPBITS = 1;
public static final int TWOSTOPBITS = 2;
Returns the number of bytes available at the time of this call.
It's possible there are more bytes by the time readByte() or
readBytes() is executed. But there will never be fewer.
public int available();
public void waitForData(int n);
public boolean writeString(String string);
returns TRUE if port is fully operationsal
returns FALSE if there is a problem with the port
public boolean isValid();
Be sure to close your serial port when done. Note that port is
automatically closed on exit if you don't close it yourself
public void close();
Reads a single byte from the input stream.
Return value will be from -128 to 127 (inclusive)
If no data at serial port, waits in routine for data to arrive.
Use available() to check how much data is available.
If error, returns 256.
public int readByte();
Reads all the bytes in the serial port.
If no bytes availble, returns array with zero elements.
Never waits for data to arrive
public byte[] readBytes();
Reads bytes from serial port and converts to a text string.
DO NOT use this routine to read data. Char->Byte converstion
does strange things when the values are negative. For non-
text values, use readBytes() above
public String readString();
Writes a single byte to the serial port.
This writes the data, whether the PIC is ready to receive or not.
Be careful not to overwhelm the PIC chip with data.
On pics without a hardware UART, the data will be ignored.
On pics with a hardware UART, overflowing will loose data AND require
the UART on the PIC to be reset. You can reset the UART in PIC code,
or manually turn the PIC off and then on.
NOTE: A byte has a value in the range of -128 to 127
NOTE: If you want to write a character, you need to cast it to a byte,
for example: simpleSerial.writeByte((char)'b');
public boolean writeByte(byte val);
For more advanced use. Gets the input stream associated with serial port
public InputStream getInputStream();
For more advanced use. Gets the output stream associated with serial port
public OutputStream getOutputStream();
Please help I am the beginner in web start.Please

Notes:
1) Please use the code tags when posting code or JNLP/HTML. It helps to retain indentation and avoids asterisks and plus sings being interpreted as formatting marks. To do that, select the code/JNLP etc. and click the CODE button seen on the Plain Text tab of the message posting form.
2) That launch file is invalid. You might check it (and the project in general) using JaNeLA.
3) The only place that SimpleSerial class could be, that the JRE would find, is in the root of aeon.jar. Is it actually there?

Userform controls disappearing in Word 2013/Windows 8.1 with High-Res display - DLL error?

I have a .dotm file with a large number of modules and userforms. Creating new documents from the template works fine on almost every computer I've tested it on (hundreds), but I've run into a setup that fails consistently.
Two different Samsung ATIV 9's with a high res display and Windows 8 (64bit)/Office 2013 show the same problem:
When opening a new document based on the template for the first time, it works fine. If I open the VB editor, everything looks normal, userforms are intact.
On the second and all consecutive attempts, it throws a "Type Mismatch" error. Opening the VB Editor, I get a compile error on lines of code referencing components of the first userform (alphabetically). Opening that userform, it shows only a blank
multi-page control, and all the other controls are missing - hence the new compile errors on controls that used to exist. If I remove that userform and save the file, the project compiles, but opening a new document from the template will result in "Word
has stopped working..."
I can actually reproduce this behavior starting from scratch - new blank document, save as a .dotm. Create a new userform and add a multipage control. Clicking any control in the toolbox to add it to the form will result in a "Type Mismatch" error,
even though there's no VBA code. I can then successfully add the control to the form. But, once I save and reopen the template, the multi-page control is blank, and the other controls I put on it disappear.
I at one point got an error from the VB Editor that it "could not open macro storage" and the included help suggested that might be due to an incorrect version of vbe7.dll.
The only copy of vbe7.dll I could find was at:
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX86\Microsoft Shared\VBA\VBA7.1
The dll version was 7.1.10.44
I tried replacing that file with a vbe7.dll file from a working computer (version 7.0.15.89 from c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\VBA\VBA7), but that just resulted in the VB editor not loading at all.
I have tried both a 32bit Click-to-run version of Office 2013, and installing off a CD with 64bit Office 2013, both had exactly the same error.
The reason I'm wondering if it's a high-DPI display related error is that googling about vbe7.dll errors, I came across this hotfix:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2880496/en-us
which claims it "Fixes various Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) issues with displays on high-DPI devices."
Neither the 32bit or 64bit installer for that hotfix would run, they said there was no affected programs installed.
My reasoning for suspecting a hardware/DLL incompatibility is this:
1) It's not the template or the VBA code, since those work elsewhere and the same behavior happens with any file with a userform
2) It's not the Office version, since both 32/64 bit, MSI and Click-to-run didn't work
3) It's not Windows 8.1, since this same template works fine on other machines
4) The first time I open the template on the affected machines, it works fine - but the template is shipped compacted and decompiled. After I open it once and then close, Word has compiled the code and corrupted it somehow, because whatever the first userform
was in the list shows up as blank.
5) It feels hardware-specific, since out of hundreds of machines, I've only seen this behavior on two of the same laptop model - seems like too much of a coincidence.
Is there any chance the VBE in Office 2013 is somehow incompatible with this hardware? If that might be the case, does anyone have any idea how I'd go about testing and/or fixing it?
Any thoughts are much appreciated.

Hi Chris,
Try the following.
Download the IDT Audio installer on the link below and save it to your Downloads folder.
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp59501-60000/sp59861.exe
When done, open windows Control Panel, open Device Manager and open up Sound, Video and Game Controllers. If you see an entry for IDT HD Audio ( or very similar IDT entry ), right click the device and select Uninstall - you should also get a prompt to remove the current driver, tick the box to allow this and then proceed with the uninstall. If there was no IDT entry, just proceed below.
When complete, shut down the notebook, unplug the AC Adapter and then remove the battery. Hold down the Power button for 30 seconds. Re-insert the battery and plug in the AC Adapter.
Tap away at the esc key as you start the notebook to launch the Start-up Menu and then select f10 to enter the bios menu. Press f5 to load the defaults ( this is sometimes f9, but the menu at the bottom will show the correct key ), use the arrow keys to select 'Yes' and hit enter. Press f10 to save the setting and again use the arrow keys to select 'Yes' and hit enter.
Let Windows fully load - it will automatically load an audio driver, but just let this complete. Then open your Downloads folder, right click on the IDT installer and select 'Run as Administrator' to start the installation. When this has completed, right click the speaker icon in the Taskbar and select Playback Devices. Left click 'Speakers and Headphones' once to highlight it and then click the Set Default button - check if you now have audio.
Regards,
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Error when launching Photoshop CS5

Photoshop CS5 bring up the following error when launching the application
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Uninstalling and resintalling the application does not resolve this problem

http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/missing-msvcp110dll.html
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After Effects Plugin Error when launching

I recently installed Red Giant Knoll Light Magic Pro plugin and get the following error when launching AE CS4 9.02 on a 2.53Ghz Intel Macbook Pro with 4Gb Ram and Snow Leopard.
After Effects has encountered an error.
[/Chincillada/pro/ext/adobe/MediaCore/MediaLayer/VideoFilterHost/Make/Mac/../../Src/AEPlug inVideoFilterModule.cpp-107]
then I get:
After Effects can't continue: An output contract violation has occured!
then:
After Effects warning: Failed to initialize mediacore
I have also lodged a support ticket with Red Giant but wanted to see if anyone had experienced, or could shed any light on this error code.
Thanks

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