I had received in the past a couple of reports saying that when launching Winrad, the program did not show up, but it was listed in the Processes pane of the Task Manager. I had no suggestions, not knowing what could be the cause of that strange behavior.
Today it suddenly happened to me too... so I went in search of the culprit. I forced the termination, one by one, of all the processes listed as active by the Windows Task Manager, checking each time if Winrad would start. And finally I found the responsible... I had installed since a couple of days the System Mechanics 7, an utility that, supposedly, should help in the maintenance of the PC. I did that, despite some warning I had read on Internet that, referred to that utility, ranged from "a piece of crap" to "most dangerous than a virus". I had dismissed them, thinking they had originated either from the competition, or from unsatisfied users, for a reason or another. Well, it turned out that they were right... terminating the process that is started at boot time by System Mechanic, all of a sudden the problem with Winrad went away. Needless to say, now my copy of System Mechanic (luckily still in the 60 days evaluation period) is in the virtual dust bin... 73 Alberto I2PHD
