Bizarre 2: On XP answer file command sometimes hangs

[Dave Cragg]

On 1 Oct 2004, at 18:58, Huisingh, Larry R wrote:

> What happens if you turn off your anti-virus software?  Perhaps that 
> name is
> somehow triggering something in Norton that hangs your system.  I have 
> heard
> about performance problems of many types in many apps when the 
> anti-virus
> program is active.
>
> Larry Huisingh
>

No change, but thanks for the suggestion.

Some more observations. When I click the button that calls "answer 
file", the stack window loses focus as it would if the file selection 
window were open. Also at this point, in Task Manager in the 
Applications tab, two instances of the application are listed as 
running. By selecting one of these (the phony one presumably) and right 
clicking and selecting "Switch To", the Task Manager will stop 
responding.


Dave



>
>> Subject: Bizarre 2: On XP answer file command sometimes hangs
>>
>> I've no answer for David Epstein's problem, but I've
>> encountered a weird one of my own.
>>
>> Om XP (SP1), I have a simple utility tool made from the 2.5
>> engine named "makeConfig_2.exe". There is a button on the
>> screen whose script has an "answer file" command in the first
>> line of the mouseUp handler.
>> I've been using it on and off for a year with no problems
>> until yesterday. When I clicked on the button, the app hung
>> before the Windows file selection dialog opened. It needed
>> the Task Manager to close out. After much pulling of hair, I
>> discovered that if I changed the exe name (for example to
>> "makeConfig.exe") it worked. But if I changed it back again,
>> it didn't.
>>
>> During the hair-pulling, I was able to confirm the following:
>>
>>    -- the original stack worked fine from the IDE.
>>    -- another exe  which was working fine, displayed the same
>> problem when renamed to "makeConfig_2.exe"
>>    --  renaming the original problem "makeConfig_2.exe" to
>> anything else (makeConfi_2.exe, pie.exe, etc.) would make the
>> problem go away.
>> -- When booted up from NT 4 from a separate drive on the same 
>> machine, it works.
>>
>> Norton AntiVirus shows the system to be clean.
>> No major changes to the machine recently (except for network
>> reconfiguration)
>> Later in the day, the SP2 update failed on the same machine.
>> (might indicate a problem)
>>
>> Any similar experiences or thoughts??
>>
>> 1-- Is "makeConfig_2.exe" a well-known no-no for file naming?
>> 2-- Time to do a complete re-install on this machine?
>> 3-- The house is haunted?
>>
>> Before 2 though, I'd feel better if I knew what was going on.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dave
>>
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