Re: Now wouldn't it be something...


Nope, only my own experiments. I think I need to blog about it :-)

Anyway, the recipe is:

1. Install only Win32 personality of Delphi 2006. No C# or Delphi.NET (I did not install C++ personality too, but I think this is irrelevant).
Also, try to minimize number of components installed - do you really need BDE? IBX? WebSnap? The less stuff you will install, the faster Delphi will be. I myself install only IDE, help, VCL sources, DBExpress and dbGo.

2. Start Delphi at least once and register it. If you did not install StarTeam, you will have harmless exception during start-up - this is kinda "normal". Exit Delphi.

3. In registry, in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\BDS\4.0\Known IDE Packages remove everything, except:
$(BDS)\Bin\coreproide100.bpl
$(BDS)\Bin\dbkdebugide100.bpl // debugger
$(BDS)\Bin\dbkdebugproide100.bpl // debugger
$(BDS)\Bin\htmlhelp2100.bpl // help support

Following packages are optional, I removed them but I'm not sure if they are somehow related to .NET:
$(BDS)\Bin\codetemplates100.bpl // code templates (funny, but seems that they work even without this package), probably .NET
$(BDS)\Bin\DataExplorer100.bpl
$(BDS)\bin\deployide100.bpl // probably .NET
$(BDS)\Bin\exceptiondiag100.bpl // IDE crash diagnostics
$(BDS)\Bin\historyide100.bpl // history tab in editor
$(BDS)\Bin\idefilefilters100.bpl
$(BDS)\Bin\IDETools100.bpl
$(BDS)\Bin\plugview100.bpl
$(BDS)\Bin\todoide100.bpl // TODO list

4. In registry, in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\BDS\4.0\Known IDE Packages\Delphi remove everything, except:
$(BDS)\Bin\delphide100.bpl
$(BDS)\Bin\delphivclide100.bpl
$(BDS)\Bin\vclmenudesigner100.bpl
$(BDS)\Bin\win32debugproide100.bpl
$(BDS)\Bin\win32debugide100.bpl
$(BDS)\Bin\delphipro100.bpl
$(BDS)\Bin\delphicoreproide100.bpl
$(BDS)\Bin\delphicompro100.bpl
$(BDS)\Bin\comcore100.bpl
$(BDS)\Bin\delphicoment100.bpl

5. Start IDE (using Delphi Win32 shortcut).
Or alternatively using command: bds.exe -pDelphi

That's it!



Alexander Tereshchenko
alex@xxxxxxxx




Adem wrote: 
Alexander Tereshchenko wrote:


Well, I didn't :-)
What exactly did you remove?


Has anyone written up somewhere how and what to do remove this
or the other personality stuff?

i.e. any links? 
.

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