Jim- kc9hi knew the fix. Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package needed to be loaded. Some XP versions don't have it. Once it was installed, I launched CHIRP again and it worked fine.

On Mar 25, 2013, at 1:11 PM, "jim" jmsrandazzo@gmail.com wrote:

hello there and two all i have windows XP and chrip and the baofeng software and i DONOT HAVE ANY PROBLEMS useing the software on xp and i have sp3 installed you have to be doing some thing wrong but xp is easy windows 7 windows8 know that is other baby in its self delete all of chrip go into regedit and clear all then reboot computer then re-install chrip _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users