Re: Delphi 2006 broken

Ryan McGinty wrote:

> I don't think that has anything to do with Delphi - I've only had to
> reboot like twice due to an app getting hung in about 3 years. I
> think in all those cases it was Explorer or NAV that got hung up. I
> kill several tasks a day and had to do it numerous times when using
> D2005. I think you may have other issues under the hood. I've had
> D2006 get hung (see my post regarding it hanging with the bdsproj
> file has old stuff in it) but I've never, ever had any issue ending
> the task (or any task for that matter) and I haven't had any issues
> debugging either...

Generally task manager can kill anything - except when an app is hung
on a resource that's busy or stuck. In this case, it looks like the app
and the IDE may have been hung on each other - I'm guessing.

> I knew a guy who had problems like you are experiencing and while he
> never figured out what was causing it (a reinstall of XP fixed it but
> of course no one knows why) he used to logoff to get XP to close some
> programs that he couldn't. Seemed to work most of the time instead
> of a full reboot... Don't know if would work for you or not.

Tried logging off, tried resetting. Nothing worked.

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Pete

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