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Crystal Reports 2008 Installed, but hangs up and no Start Page

I have uninstalled and re-installed Crystal Reports 2008.  I cannot get the application to run. It skips the Start Page and opens the Design menu, but doesn't kick in. I get an hourglass and nothing happens. I was working for a company earlier in the Summer and they had their own Crystal Viewer that ran under Borland.  I unistalled the PCMS viewer and wonder if there is a setting in the start-up files, I need to change.

What can I do to get Crystal 2008 to run?
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I wonder if their application failed to uninstall cleanly.

Do you have a machine that doesn't have Crystal or any Crystal application installed that you can try to install Crystal on.

Some versions of Crystal do not uninstall completely and make installing a newer version difficult.

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No I don't. I downloaded the Crystal Reports 2011 trial version and installed it. I have to teach a class this week and needed the reporting capabilities.

I have  tried running the 2008 application from the crw32.exe and the same thing happens.
I don't know.  I have never seen that happen

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How do I look in the Registry? I have never touched them before.
If you haven't  made registry changes before then I wouldn't do it without assistance from your local IT just to ensure nothing goes wrong.
Thank you both so much!!