My installation of Delphi XE7 update 1 Professional crashes after several minutes, without any user interaction.


My installation of Delphi XE7 update 1 Professional crashes after several minutes, without any user interaction. Just start the IDE, load a project, sit back and stare on the screen. After some minutes... Windows reports an application error and the only option is to quit the IDE.

Looking into the Windows Event Viewer, the name of the faulty application is bds.exe Version: 21.0.xxx, and the name of the faulty module is designide230.bpl, Version: 23.0.xxx

Yes, there is also Delphi 10 Seattle installed on the same machine, but why does XE7 loads a module from that other version? I can see that XE7 loads that module by clicking Help -> About -> Version information). That list shows that both designide210.bpl and designide230.bpl are loaded!

And I think that some copy protection code in XE7 stumbles about this and crashes the IDE.

Any ideas how to solve that problem?

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