I've never seen this happen, but if you have any third-party controls or elements installed that may have some dependencies, it might be that they are failing now. As a test, if you can, try removing them. -Tom Hansen
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Ken Adam <k...@akadamia.co.uk> wrote: > I have been busy on other non-software projects and haven't used Delphi for > several months (whereas I used to use it all day every day!), so my Windows > 7 PC will have changed a bit since it was last used. > > Today I tried to compile a simple program and after I ran it, I could not > close Delphi. > Checking Task manager showed that both bds.exe and my application were > still > running, but neither could be "kill"-ed. > > Rebooted PC and started again. > Managed to do a few small jobs, then started to write a new program. > > I tried to run it (with nothing more than 1 action to open a text file and > add it to a memo), closed the application then closed BDS. When I tried to > open BDS again, I found it was still running in the background (GExperts > complained), and so was the test program. Again, neither can be killed, and > although I can run BDS, I can't overwrite the exe I'm developing, so > development is going to be very slow with a lot of rebooting! > > Has anyone seen anything like this before? > Any ideas what might be preventing the app from closing (I presume it is > because the app won't close that BDS can't close). > > I've tried a lot of googling, but if the answer is out there, I'm not > thinking of the right keywords to search for! > > Thanks for any help you can give. > > Regards, > Ken > > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > Delphi@elists.org > http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list Delphi@elists.org http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
