Hi. TextPad 4.5 has been working wonderfully for me the past few months. I have a Windows2000 workstation, and our server is NT 4.0.
We just upgraded our server to Windows 2000 this weekend and now when I try to open up TextPad, it opens, however, that's all it does. I can't minimize it, nothing. I have to go through task manager to end it. I've tried rebooting, still does the same thing.
Has anyone had this same experience? How do I resolve this problem?
Thanks for your help!
Oops! I forgot to mention, that TextPad doesn't lock up like this until I try to access one of my exisiting java programs. If I don't open any files, it doesn't lock up.
Thanks again!
Its funny you should mention this. I am encountering the same problem, today. In my case, it seems that here on our network the FindFirstChangeNotification API is constantly (and erroneously) signaling a change notification handle... or something like that. I've talked to our network guy about this, and he's currently stumped.
It seems that one workaround is changing the Configure->Preferences...->File option "When files are modified by another process:" to Ignore.
I know that's lame, because its such a cool feature, but it seems to get the job done.
Jacob.
BTW: other applications that we use here are exhibiting odd behavior due to this problem, so I hope that [network] things get fixed.
A little follow-up, for anyone interested: It turns out (surprise of surprises) that McAfee Virus scan was running amok on our fileserver. We discovered this thanks to http://www.sysinternals.com/. There is a freeware application there called FileMon [http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml], that displays all the file system activity in real-time (it is oh so cool). Anyway, we ran this on the server and it became quite apparent, quite quickly, that a little process called mcshield.exe was doing quite a lot more than it ought to in important directories. Anyway, maybe using this utility to analyze other misbehaving servers could help solve problems elsewhere...
Thanks for mentioning McAfee running amok. I had the exact same problem as described above, and it turns out it was McAfee NetShield 4.5 causing Textpad to hang. Unfortunately, the only thing that I could do was to disable "When files are modified by another process" as well.
Everytime i enter my license, the program says it registered. I close it go back into it, then close it again. The third time i open it, it is unregistered. Why?
Everytime i enter my license, the program says it registered. I close it go back into it, then close it again. The third time i open it, it is unregistered. Why?
