Could not open/read file: C:\sea77\client\local\sse_data.dbf

Do you get a popup error when you start up your computer that says "Could not open/read file: C:\sea77\client\local\sse_data.dbf"? If you do, I bet it takes a heck of a long time to start up your computer too. I haven't run into this problem for quite sometime, but I just got a new machine and a clean install of Siebel 7.7.6.2 (client). I run into this problem every time I make a clean install but for some reason I can't seem to remember how to fix it right away. It bothers me enough that I thought I'd post a solution to it here. It's easy.

• In Windows, go to Start > Run, and type "services.msc" in the Run window to open your services console.
• Find the service named "Adaptive Server Anywhere - siebel_local"
• Right click the service and select Properties from the context-menu
• In the Properties window, change the startup type to "Manual"
• Do the same for the service named "Siebel QuickStart Service"
• Click Apply, then OK

This disables the auto-startup of the SQLAnywhere server that looks for your local database. Another fix is probably to re-point your Local data source to an existing DBF file, or to drop a DBF file into the expected directory, but I don't really need this feature on startup, so I just like to disable it.

There you go. Enjoy your two minutes back at every startup.