Unusual launch error: \"Access to ...PRoCon.xml is denied\"

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Originally Posted by ACitySurvivro*:

 

Hi everyone, I know procon and BF4 servers are getting old, but hopefully some of you guys are still around...

 

When I launch Procon, after accepting the terms I get this error message

Unhandled exception has occured in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.

 

Access to the path 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\PRoCon.xml' is denied.

 

I can post the "details" button text later if anyone needs it.

 

When I try to close Procon, I get another error message:

(same paragraph about unhandled exception)

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

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Originally Posted by ColColonCleaner*:

 

  ACitySurvivro* said:

Hi everyone, I know procon and BF4 servers are getting old, but hopefully some of you guys are still around...

 

When I launch Procon, after accepting the terms I get this error message

Unhandled exception has occured in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.

 

Access to the path 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\PRoCon.xml' is denied.

 

I can post the "details" button text later if anyone needs it.

 

When I try to close Procon, I get another error message:

(same paragraph about unhandled exception)

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

I would suggest re-downloading procon. Nothing in the application should be looking at system32.

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Originally Posted by leibhold*:

 

Unless one extracted the zip file into the windows system32...

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Originally Posted by ACitySurvivro*:

 

I extracted it onto my desktop, it worked for a while but then stopped working on both the PCs I installed it on.

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Originally Posted by ACitySurvivro*:

 

  ColColonCleaner* said:

I would suggest re-downloading procon. Nothing in the application should be looking at system32.

This error happened twice on two different PCs, I'll try reinstalling but I think it will break after a short time

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Originally Posted by ty_ger07*:

 

Your desktop is part of your Windows user account. This might be causing access restriction problems. Could you try extracting it to a new folder on your C drive which doesn't have user account restrictions?

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Originally Posted by leibhold*:

 

The procon code uses the location of the running program to create and save the xml file.

 

Apart from running it under a system account as a service or some other strange thing, I cant think of a circumstance where the xml file would be created any where except where you unzipped and ran procon from.