Computer Question

[4u2nv]

Anyone have any ideas as to why a program would just close automatically? I try to open up my copy of Flexi-Sign pro, and it gets to the part where it opens for like 2-3 seconds and just closes. I ran all my spyware stuff, virus scanner (Even updated both) and still no signs of why itd do it. I was going to check my firewall, but I didnt change anything, so I dont know why all of a sudden it wouldnt work. It worked fine a couple days ago... Any ideas????? :surrender

 

[jetmechG550]

Reboot the computer. I've had issues with different programs we use on the airplanes and usually that works

 

[FastEddy]

Re-boot

 

[mr_bob]

as they say reboot and if they doesn't work it might be a ram problem


more like there isnt enough free ram. i would try this close all open programs down in the task bar and try again if that doesn't work you might have to re install the program. One of the files might have got corrupted

 

[HeartBreak]

I'll chuck in another one for reboot. However, the program itself could be corrupt. I've had programs suddenly close like that, and reinstalling them fixed the error.

 

[beason]

fdisk, format, reload...

j/k!! agian, reboot, if that dont work, uninstall and reinstall the program.

 

[4u2nv]

Last night I restarted the computer and it still did it. Then I got fed up with it, and just shut it down and went to bed. Today everything works fine.. :Shrug:

 

[rocknbil]

If the computer spontaneously reboots it's a RAM issue. If there's insufficient RAM to run a program, the system will first try to use virtual memory on disk and if it can't, stop the loading process and tell you you don't have enough free memory.

This is most likely an issue of a conflicting driver or resource used by an active program. For example, a video driver may have a particular DLL in service and when you load the program it tries to load another DLL that attempts to use a space in memory that's already occupied.

Next time it happens it's important to ctrl-alt-del to the task manager and note what applications and processes are running. Then you're offto msconfig (start->run, type msconfig) to shut them off one by one until you find the offending service.

Things that don't happen all the time are a royal pain in the ass, I hate them. They make me want to erase hard drives.

 

[HeartBreak]

I'll second what rocknbil said; with outlook 2000, if you close it just-wrong, it will leave a process in memory, preventing it from being loaded. You have to control-alt-delete to get the task manager, then close out all outlook.exe listings.

Perhaps not the same issue as with your program, 4u2nv, but maybe there is a 'chunk' of the program left resident that could be causing it.