Weird issue with multiple instances

Drxenos · Post by **Drxenos** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 12:53 pm

I have a strange problem. I don't normally use multiple instances, but I was the other day. I have a tool set up to open diffs in Beyond Compare.

I found that when I tried to launch the tool from the 2nd instance. I got a message from Windows saying it wasn't allowed (access denied).

Launching the tool from the 1st instance still worked fine, however.

Thanks,

DrX

Drxenos · Post by **Drxenos** » Mon Apr 30, 2018 8:26 pm

Anyone else experience issues running external tools from a second instance of TextPad?

Post by **AmigoJack** » Wed May 02, 2018 2:21 pm

Make sure no instances run.
Start one instance.
Start another instance using the same way.
Now try to repeat what you experienced.

Most likely your two instances were running in different contextes for whichever reason (starting one instance thru a 32bit process, the other thru a 64bit process). Without having your both instances still running and analyzing them with third party tools it could be anything.

Drxenos · Post by **Drxenos** » Tue May 29, 2018 7:30 pm

AmigoJack wrote:

Make sure no instances run.

Start one instance.

Start another instance using the same way.

Now try to repeat what you experienced.
Most likely your two instances were running in different contextes for whichever reason (starting one instance thru a 32bit process, the other thru a 64bit process). Without having your both instances still running and analyzing them with third party tools it could be anything.

Hmm, you might be on to something. I started both from the start menu shortcut, and it works fine.

Thanks!