I run Firefox (was v2 now v3)... I run AmiBroker upto the current 5.15 version... I run Vista Business 64 Bit... never had such a problem as you have outlined.
Very occasionally Vista has been a touch flaky... but outside of that, rock solid. --- In [email protected], "Ed Hoopes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. >
