QC 10.0 Enterprise edition with Windows 7

Today Morning, the first Issue I worked with QC is to provide the solution for Compatibility issue with QC 10 Enterprise Edition with Windows 7.

So far I have not used QC on Windows 7 till my test coordinator contacted me with this problem.

I am very much thankful to test coordinator who make me to look into this issue as I made my hands dirty with both windows 7 installation and QC trail version on personal laptop first before I provided the solution to customer.

The problem seems the general and frequent for all QC Administrators works on XP.

Well I do not want to talk much on this. Lets jump into problem directly

Here is the problem I am listing for you :

Following client components were not downloaded successfully:

1 . ExtensibilityAPI.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

2 . OTAClient.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

3 . WebClient.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

4 . QCClientUI.ocx :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

5 . wexectrl.exe :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

6 . XGO.ocx :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

7 . OTAXml.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

8 . OtaReport.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

9 . SRunner.ocx :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

10 . TdComandProtocol.exe :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

11 . sr_exec_agnt.exe :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

12 . MercResourceLogger.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

13 . bp_exec_agent.exe :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

14 . Free_MSR_Player.exe :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

15 . dsoframer.ocx :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

16 . VugenTestType.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

17 . QCClient.UI.Customization.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

18 . QCClient.UI.Components.BPT.TPC.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

19 . BuiltInPlugin.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

20 . ReportViewerForTD.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

21 . QTGrid.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

22 . ArgsEditor.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

23 . Arguments.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

24 . ConfigViewerForTD.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

25 . ExGrid.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

26 . CompStrgHelper.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

27 . BuiltInScriptView.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

28 . QAIAd.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

29 . WITestType.dll :

(Error 5)

Failed to open file for writing

30 . ExtensibilityAPI.dll :

Cannot load type library

31 . ExtensibilityAPI.dll :

(Error 1008) Es wurde versucht, auf ein Token zuzugreifen, das nicht vorhanden ist.

Cannot register type library

32 . OTAClient.dll :

Cannot load type library

33 . OTAClient.dll :

(Error 1008) Es wurde versucht, auf ein Token zuzugreifen, das nicht vorhanden ist.

Cannot register type library

34 . WebClient.dll :

Cannot load type library

35 . WebClient.dll :

(Error 1008) Es wurde versucht, auf ein Token zuzugreifen, das nicht vorhanden ist.

Cannot register type library

Solution:

in fact I got the partial solution to this from HP forums on QC and rest I dig out on my own.

I am listing the step by step procedure for you here to make it resolved

“Using QC with Win 7 "


Windows 7.0 includes many new security features to prevent users from accidentally damaging the windows installation. This in turn will prevent QC from being able to install properly. It is important to understand that in Windows 7, a standard user with administrator privileges is not equal to the built in administrator user.


Here you can Follow the instructions below to get QCclient to work with win7.

1. Ensure that User control accounts setting is disabled.

 a. in the Windows globe>search for program and files> type UAC
 b. click on the link to bring up the UAC.
 c. Move the slider down to never notify.
 d. Restart the computer.

2. Disable Data Execution prevention (DEP)

 a. In the Windows globe>search for program and files > type CMD
 b. Right click on the link and run as administrator.
 c. In the command prompt type,
Code:
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bcdedit /set {current} nx AlwaysOff
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 d. Restart the computer.

2. Launch IE and connect to Quality Center and should be able to work within QC.

3 Change the user control accounts setting back to the original setting and restart.

P.S. If you ran into other problems with QC with Windows 7, I strongly recommend you to look into this discussion thread