It's more likely that the wonderful Vista O/S you have is the corrupter ... It doesn't do too many things well other than hog resources ... At that it's excellent ...
----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Hoopes Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:08 pm Subject: [amibroker] Vista and AmiBroker To: [email protected] > I have a < 1 year old (new to me) laptop running AB 5.13 with the > Vista operating system. > > Twice, when I shut down the computer things go very wrong with the > shutdown hanging and other ??? stuff. When I re-boot AmiBroker is > very corrupted, requiring days of re-building things. I > understand AB > well enough to fix things - probably in a clumsy way, though. > > I have been baffled as to why this is happening - but now I > have a > hint - I just went to shut things down and my FireFox browser was > still running as a zombie process - not visible in the app tray > or in > the Task Manager Applications tab, but visible in the Process > tab. > When I killed the process, then the shutdown proceeded. > (FireFox was > smart enough to prompt me that it was still running and wanted > to know > what it should do.) > > HYPOTHESIS - Maybe AB becomes a zombie and corrupts things when > the OS > shuts down anyway?? > > Anyone out there having this problem??? > > ReefBreak > > PS My previous Toshiba laptop with Win XP NEVER did this. > > > >
