There is a little trick to disable “Known IDE Packages”: you can stop Delphi from loading one by either making “Value data” of the registry blank, or prepending it with an underscore:
packages that might have been disabled, by checking any string entries where the data has been pre-pended with an underscore OR is blank
[WayBack] Access violation at address 00000000 read of address 00000000, when starting the IDE or opening a project after installing the updates
I’ve pre-pended underscores to some packages in the registry key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland|Codegear|Embarcadero\BDS|Delphi\#.0\Known IDE Packages]
and intend to keep the list below updated over time.
Note that you have to prepend the description with an underscore: it is not sufficient to add these to
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland|Codegear|Embarcadero\BDS\#.0\Disabled Packages]
.Empirically, the
Disabled Packages
seem to work only for packages starting withdcl
in their filename.