Hi all,
I'm using TC for many years with zero problems. But during last month I have Windows freezing each time I try to start TC. No messages, no nothing, just freeze. Only solution hard booting. This happens randomnly with no reason and not all the time. It is very bad especially when working some project and need to use TC for a moment.
Any help please?
WinXP SP2 All Updates, TC 6.54a.
Spyros
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Hello, Welcome aboard !
• Hard to say what is faulty in such a case…
- Many times, this can be caused by a virus-scanner working in the background…
- You might check which new programmes you installed since the period when TC worked fine.
Some ones could cause troubles too…
Kind regards,
Claude
Clo
Hello, Welcome aboard !• Hard to say what is faulty in such a case…
- Many times, this can be caused by a virus-scanner working in the background…
- You might check which new programmes you installed since the period when TC worked fine.
Some ones could cause troubles too…
Kind regards,Claude
Clo
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TychoBarfy
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My be one reason is Microsofts indexing service running in the background.
If it is you could stop it and set its starting option to manual.
Also Microsoft Office indexing service is such a candidate.
Every Office setup creates a link in the Startup folder referring to osa.exe.
Just delete this link. You'll never need it cause it makes worse but good.
May be this all was not the reason, but you can't do wrong.
You could also look into your TC settings if you enabled
"Display" ->"Allways load complete directory tree" and if so disable it.
The worst case would be that your hd is going to die
If it is you could stop it and set its starting option to manual.
Also Microsoft Office indexing service is such a candidate.
Every Office setup creates a link in the Startup folder referring to osa.exe.
Just delete this link. You'll never need it cause it makes worse but good.
May be this all was not the reason, but you can't do wrong.
You could also look into your TC settings if you enabled
"Display" ->"Allways load complete directory tree" and if so disable it.
The worst case would be that your hd is going to die
My default answer for 'undefined' problems:
Try to start TC with commandline parameter /i to set a different ini file
Of course you'll have to adjust the path to TC. That would start TC with a fresh ini file in the program dir - it is like reinstall TC but without loosing your settings.
If this works there may something be wrong with your ini. If not I would guess it could be a hardware fault (HD, RAM...)
sheepdog
Try to start TC with commandline parameter /i to set a different ini file
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c:\totalcmd\totalcmd.exe /i=.\test.iniIf this works there may something be wrong with your ini. If not I would guess it could be a hardware fault (HD, RAM...)
sheepdog
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XPEHOPE3KA
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Well, I've had this problem. Some days before I formatted my D drive to NTFS (from FAT) and now all is working (hope so).
I have two hard drives. C (80 Gb) is system, D (160 Gb) is for My documents. The latter was formatted in FAT and had a 4 Gb file (DVD rip) on it for some time. I guess that was the reason of freezing.
BTW, windows freezed only when either panel showed something on D drive. And after hard reboot I sometimes got "your disk D needs to be checked for consistency" message, or even I couldn't load my computer (cuz bios couldn't locate the harddrive(s)).
I have two hard drives. C (80 Gb) is system, D (160 Gb) is for My documents. The latter was formatted in FAT and had a 4 Gb file (DVD rip) on it for some time. I guess that was the reason of freezing.
BTW, windows freezed only when either panel showed something on D drive. And after hard reboot I sometimes got "your disk D needs to be checked for consistency" message, or even I couldn't load my computer (cuz bios couldn't locate the harddrive(s)).