Pidgin Crashing on Windows 7 64-bit – Fixed

Ever since installing Windows 7 RC, I have not been able to run Pidgin. It would put an icon in the tray, then disappear. Finally after searching the net high and low and found this comment on an open pidgin ticket that seemed to resolve the problem.

I have XAMPP installed and the PHP subdirectory is in the path. I renamed the aspell-15.dll in this directory and the crash went away. Renaming the file back caused the crash. Seems to be a conflict between these two files.

I also had the same issue with XAMPP installed. Thanks Chowarmaan, whoever you are!

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June 17, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Technology

5 Responses

  1. d3monoid - June 20, 2009

    good info man! :) ..

  2. kubi - July 21, 2009

    That’s exactly the same in my case! Thanks

  3. nick - September 30, 2009

    Same issue for me, thought Windows 7 (32bit) was causing the issue but the aspell DLL from PHP was causing it.

    Thanks very much

  4. Anney - January 7, 2010

    I am a php developer and I usually use windows OS with Xampp I was getting that error, I hope the new retail version will be flawless

  5. Snt - January 16, 2010

    Thanks man ,
    same problem solved by renaming the file !

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