Re: Delphi 2006 broken

John Jacobson wrote:

> Pete Goodwin <goodwin.REMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> <43abe701$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that Delphi 2006, like Delphi
> > 2005 is badly broken.
> >
> > Twice today I've had to reboot my system - why? Because Delphi 2006
> > hung. The IDE remains responsive but locked, with a wait cursor. The
> > application that I was debugging is still running but I can't kill
> > it. I can't kill Delphi 2006 either.
>
> Only twice? There's been days when I had to restart Delphi 7 half a
> dozen times because of the very problem you are describing. So far,
> I've never had to do it with D2005 or D2006. If one were to
> extrapolate their personal experience into universal truth, one could
> just as easily conclude that there has actually been a great
> improvement in this respect.
>
> I'm slightly confused about why you rebooted your system instead of
> simply killing Delphi from the task manager, as well as the
> on-the-loose application being debugged. What operating system are
> you using, Windows 3.0?

As I've said in other posts, I tried to kill the process with task
manager. It did not work. I had to reboot rather forcibly (i.e. hit the
reset button) to recover.

This is Windows XP.

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Pete Goodwin
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