[Virtualacorn-list] Triple or quadruple click on Windows7

[Jeremy Nicoll - ml virtualacorn]

P. Sprangers <P.Sprangers at sprie.nl> wrote:
 
> > What happens if you navigate in explorer to the folder containing the VA
> > program, then right-click it and choose "Run As..." (or whatever W7
> > offers)?
> 
> Whether I run the program as an administrator or not makes no difference
> at all.

OK; does the program (started by right-clicking the .exe) start cleanly? 
Does it then shut down cleanly? 

Under XP right-clicking the .exe and choosing Properties allows me to see
amongst other things 'Compatibility' options, none of which are set here.
Does W7 have a similar display?  Is anything set?


 
> > I put some other ideas in a reply to someone else's post. 
> > [etc.]
> 
> Thank you very much for your suggestions. However, they don't seem to be
> valid for VirtualAcorn.

Umm, surely all the stuff about trying to see if a process - any process,
but probably VA - starts on the first double-click is very relevant.  I find
it very hard to believe that nothing at all happens then, because until VA
starts to run, none of what happens (or doesn't) has anything to do with VA.
 (I don't find it hard to believe that nothing visible happens.  Finding out
what happens seems to me to be important here.)

It's a great pity that Windows doesn't offer the sort of detailed log that
!Reporter gives us under RO.  The Event log info I described is the nearest
I've been able to find to getting info on processes starting & stopping. 



If it comes to that, do your event logs record anything, for example when VA
fails to shut down?



> There's no other program in Windows7 that needs a quadruple click at all
> and no... VRPC didn't lose its proper registration.

It's not the registration with the vendor I was thinking of, but that of
related DLLs (and I'm not sure how you could be sure that they were ok). 
However if you've done a clean uninstall & reinstall I guess that's less
likely to be the problem.

 
> I've reinstalled my old VRPC-SE several times, which is a tedious work,
> the more so since it needs to do all of the internet updates every time as
> well. Therefore, I recently decided to order a brand new copy with all the
> updates pre-installed.
> 
> Now I have two copies, a very old VRPC-SE and a brand new VRPC-SA. Both of
> them can only be started by quadruple clicking and both of them fail to
> shut down properly.

Was the recent install done 'as administrator' or whatever the right term is
for W7?

When you say it fails to shutdown properly, what actually gets left?  Do you
get a fault reported (as Brian reported)?


What happens if (with your machine not connected to the internet) you shut
down your antivirus app?  Do you run any a/v or anti malware app that has
'real time protection'?  Or indeed a firewall that regulates what programs
may start and what they may do - eg as Zone Alarm does under 'program
control'?  What happens if you turn all of this off?



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Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.