# Unable to get GIT GUI to start on Windows XP - Git-1.9.4-preview20140929

2 messages from 2015-10-06 to 2015-10-06. Participants: Mr Tava Ithia, Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/40503

## Mr Tava Ithia, 2015-10-06 13:49

Subject: Unable to get GIT GUI to start on Windows XP - Git-1.9.4-preview20140929
Message-ID: <loom.20151006T154739-494@post.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20151006T154739-494%40post.gmane.org

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Dear Support

Can you please assist me, as I've got this issue starting up GIT GUI on 
Windows XP, Service Pack 3

Whenever I try to start-up GIT GUI, I get the following error 
message "Error in startup script", please see below.

Error in startup script

unable to open key: The system cannot find the file specified.
  while executing
"registry values $key "LocaleName""
  (procedure "mgcat::Init" line 50)
  invoked from within
"msgcat::Init"
 (file "C:/Program Files/The Git Development 
Community/Git/lib/tcl8/8.5/msgcat-1.5.0.tm" line 603)
 invoked from within
"source -encoding utf-8 {C:/Program Files/The Git Development 
Community/Git/lib/tcl8/8.5/msgcat-1.5.0.tm}"
 ("package ifneeded msgcat 1.5.0" script)
 invoked from within
"package require msgcat"
 (file "C:/Program Files/The Git Development Community/Git/libexec/git-
core/git-gui.tcl" line 94)
 invoked from within
"source [file join [file dirname [info script]] git-gui.tcl]"
 (file "C;\Program Files\The Git Development Community\Git\libexec\git-
core\git2 line 25)

Git Release Notes (Git-1.9.4-preview20140929)
Last update: 29 September 2014

I've been searching the web forums for weeks now and speaking to other 
members of my team, but know one has been able to find the solution.

Any assistance you can give me would be very much appreciated.

Kind regards

Tava Ithia 

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## Johannes Schindelin, 2015-10-06 14:40

Subject: Re: Unable to get GIT GUI to start on Windows XP - Git-1.9.4-preview20140929
Message-ID: <7871f01611154f5bac2dba40df7b422a@dscho.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7871f01611154f5bac2dba40df7b422a%40dscho.org
In-Reply-To: <loom.20151006T154739-494@post.gmane.org>

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Hi Mr Ithia,

On 2015-10-06 15:49, Mr Tava Ithia wrote:
> Dear Support

Not quite... This is an Open Source project, not a paid-for support ;-)

> Can you please assist me, as I've got this issue starting up GIT GUI on 
> Windows XP, Service Pack 3

Have you tried the current Git for Windows version? As of yesterday, it is 2.6.1: https://git-for-windows.github.io/#dowload

Ciao,
Johannes

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