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Find And Run Robot / Re: A few problems and a suggestion
« on: February 28, 2006, 08:53 PM »
Funny, I just happened to check out what's going on with the ini. I made a change that I wanted to keep. I saved the config file thru the file menu. Then I looked at the ini. What was changed was the ini.tmp. Then I exited FARR and the ini file changed. Then I backed it up due to the problems I've had. Then I realized what's probably happening. If I get a windows crash (this is millenium after all - that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it) the ini file is not updated but the ini.tmp is still there so I haven't lost anything. FARR just has to find it. So that must cause the funny error messages and tray trigger running at startup instead of -tray. It's probably usually fixed just by closing tray trigger and bringing up -tray.
The only reason I even tried the uninstaller is because I wanted to get the program back to a clean install type of state with the oriiginal backup ini file being used. I thought if I could do that the problems I have had would go away. I didn't continue trying when I realized that it was basically a standalone. I must try to avoid those windows crashes.
Also, I think FARR loses its timing when its being used at about the same time as an explorer hang. FARR has never crashed but it seems to lose track of its ini if there's an explorer hangup. What happens is that something has happened and an explorer slowdown is just starting but before it realy takes hold I bring up FARR which cannot complete its job as the everything sort of just stops.
Just wondering if I can install another copy of FARR and use a different ini for it if I don't run them both at the same time.
The only reason I even tried the uninstaller is because I wanted to get the program back to a clean install type of state with the oriiginal backup ini file being used. I thought if I could do that the problems I have had would go away. I didn't continue trying when I realized that it was basically a standalone. I must try to avoid those windows crashes.
Also, I think FARR loses its timing when its being used at about the same time as an explorer hang. FARR has never crashed but it seems to lose track of its ini if there's an explorer hangup. What happens is that something has happened and an explorer slowdown is just starting but before it realy takes hold I bring up FARR which cannot complete its job as the everything sort of just stops.
Just wondering if I can install another copy of FARR and use a different ini for it if I don't run them both at the same time.