Freeze upon application load

Deucalion · Post by **Deucalion** » September 8th, 2003, 10:41 am

Using WinXP on P4 with 512K memory and Outpost firewall

Approximately once per day, clicking a shortcut (whether on the start menu or task bar) starts to open the program and stops loading. This happens with various programs, not just one. This can also happen with no other programs running. Task manager shows 56K loaded into memory on the processes tab, but it is not reflected on the applications tab. Does this sound like a problem with the memory stick, something conflicting in the OS, something else?

y3k · Post by **y3k** » September 9th, 2003, 9:19 am

does it finish loading the program? :-k

Deucalion · Post by **Deucalion** » September 9th, 2003, 10:26 am

Never completes loading. And I can't close it through task manager.

y3k · Post by **y3k** » September 9th, 2003, 1:14 pm

sounds like a shortcut issue or a registry issue, i have no idea were you should start looking unfortunatly

Micha the not so Old · September 9th, 2003, 6:23 pm

Is it the same program, or a random program. If you hit ctrl-alt-del you get the windows task manager up. I have had Firebird refuse to start a couple of times after downloading a nightly that didn't work.

I would click on it and nothing happened, so I renamed the old version, and clicked again, only this time it asks which profile I want to use, which only happens when it is already running.

Hitting ctrl-alt-del enabled me to see it was already running, so I closed it, and it opened properly this time.