See the note later in this post.
[edit]And see Michael's reply. Makes sense, once it has been explained.[/edit]
On startup I got a permission dialog for the registry. EA needed permission to load a .reg file.
I allowed this, and received a second permission dialog, also to load the registry and also with a .reg file. I also allowed this.
Note that there are two .reg files in the application directory, but I cannot confirm that they are the same two that the permission dialogs noted. [I did not write them down, and they seemed the same to me when I read the details of the dialogs. The actual file names are very similar, so they probably correspond the the dialogs.]
Once I permitted the second dialog EA started successfully.
NOTE: The workspace settings for EA were not propagated to the new installation. In particular, the toolbox and layout panels were missing.
The first time I started EA 7.5 after installing beta 2 (build 841) I opened a model created earlier (and last used with EA 7.5 beta 1). After noting the layout issue above I closed the model without making changes.
I then opened EA without opening a model. The layout and toolbox were small undocked windows this time, in default positions. [They were stacked, with the toolbox underneath and completely hidden by the layout pane, near the upper left of the EA surface.] I can confirm that they were not visible when I opened the model earlier, as they would have obscured some obvious components on the default window of that model.]
I was able to dock the layout window and toolbox. Both was set to some (individual) width setting (I docked them to the sides of the EA surface), rather than taking on the width I had previously set (I had changed the width of each of these windows earlier).
After closing EA and restarting the program, the new window positions were remembered. This was also true when starting EA a prior model (i.e. the model opened with the windows set to the new widths mentioned above, but with both windows visible and docked).
HTH, David
[edit]Bug reported, with (an indirect) link to this thread.[/edit]
