Downloaded the new installer 1.6.1. Run PVIEW.EXE and it gave the same error. Then downloaded “dependency walker” and run it against PVIEW.EXE. It reported errors.
The first was a missing MSJAVA.DLL. That is easy fixed by adding the dll to the panda bin folder.
The second error is:
“The side-by-side configuration information for …\bin\LIBPANDA.DLL contains errors”, followed by the error code 14001 and the advide to reinstall the application.
I checked the internet on this and there are a lot of articles there about troubleshooting a VS2005 C++ application redistribution. I can only conclude that the xcopy deployment on windows is not working properly.