Problem with start.bat
 

I was running my server fine until I used an item editor on my character.. now when I run start.bat I get this message http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u...shadow/der.jpg

I'm a noob at this... please help me fix it someone.

The emu requires Perl to be installed on your machine. Wherever you installed it, the path statement was altered to be able to find it without specifying where exactly it was.

The message in your post is saying it cannot find the Perl binary. The possibilities are:
1. Perl was uninstalled - reinstall it
2. The path was altered so it cannot find it anymore. - best bet tell it to uninstall perl and reinstall it
3. The item editor uses a different version of perl and changed things to point to it. - This would be a cause of option 2. Follow instructions for option 2 and verify emu works properly. Then try item editor again and try emu. If still works fine great. If not, consider a different item editor or live with reinstalling perl every time you use it.

I just re-installed perl and I'm still getting the same error when I run start.bat... I don't want to have to start from scratch and re-configure my server... any ideas?

I just went to the folder I downloaded from perl, went to the bin folder... and took the perl58.dll file and dropped it into C:\windows\system32 folder... works fine now... thanks for the help anyways

Check that your in-game quest scripts are working. Go talk to some NPCs you know should talk back, just to make sure that one file is all that's needed.

You also need to make sure that that when installing perl your also telling it it add itself to the windows PATH. This option is in the setup and if you dont click it, all the things that emu uses as far as perl goes has to be copied to a location that has been defined in PATH, for example the System32 folder.