Hi Esteban. Yes, I know the issue does not happen on every XP SP3 box, because we have Pharo 2 running ok in my work. There is no antivirus running, and Pharo.exe is the only application that crash on start.
However, I have dumped the crash with standard debuggers, drwatson and procdump. These are the links if you want to check them with WinDbg or another tool:

Procdump: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7XMfmjGRcXAWXJKdUY4eE1hQWc/edit?usp=sharing
DrWatson: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7XMfmjGRcXAWnMtUGEwLXM3YXM/edit?usp=sharing

The dump was generated with:
procdump -ma -i c:\Pharo2.0

and then launching Pharo.exe

To check the dump

Dumpchk -a Pharo_130909_075733.dmp

I will continue checking later.

Cheers,

Hern��n

2013/9/8 Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com>

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Hi,

I just tested:

- open XP SP3 virtual machine
- download windows app
- open
- play a bit, save

everything works fine for me.��

Can you provide more information about the state of your system?
(antivirus could be a problem, RO of the files too), whatever... essentially I cannot reproduce your case :)

Esteban

On Sep 8, 2013, at 1:02 AM, Hern��n Morales Durand <hernan.morales@gmail.com> wrote:

Just to let you know the Pharo VM for the 2.0 Windows (http://files.pharo.org/platform/Pharo2.0-win.zip) hangs during startup with an uncaught exception in my old Windows XP SP3. There is no .dmp or .log file generated.

This is the error signature provided by Windows

AppName: pharo.exe�� AppVer: 0.0.0.0�� ModName: pharo.exe
ModVer: 0.0.0.0�� Offset: 0004b73f

and I have attached the SysInternals "File Monitor" Log.

Cheers,

Hern��n

<pharo2-vm-failure-file-monitor.zip>