SkinBrowser GPF's

Skinbrowser will ocassionally become unresponsive while I'm veiwing messages. No GPF, just grinds to a halt.


Gateway 550
384 MB RAM
Windows 98SE (Litestep Shell)
Skinbrowser 0.97 (thank you JavaBrain)

As a matter of fact, it did it when I posted the message above.

Sounds like I'm not the only one...

If I try the same thing under Windows 2000 Professional (Dell Latitude laptop, 256 MB, Service Pack 2 installed), I get:

The instruction at "0x00411534" referenced memory at 0x00000000. The memory could not be "read."

Looks to me like someone's trying to use an uninitialized pointer.

Just to clarify--I'm hitting the "comments" button on the right side of the frame next to the screenshot, not the "comments" button on the top row.

Chris Radlinski

I had the problem about a week ago, and when I looked at the details of the GPF, I noticed that it was pointing at Temp directory that WB uses. I deleted all of the files in the Temp directory and haven't had a problem since.

Gerrrrrrrr WB=SB.....

/me can't even blame it on Dyslexia

Thanks for the tip.

How do I find out what temp directory it's using?

Chris

This is where they are hiding on my system....

C:\Documents and Settings\default\Local Settings\Temp\~wincustomize

may or may not be hiding in the same place on your system....

Good Luck

I gave it a try. No joy.

This is definitely a bug. Does Stardock read these forums or is there someplace else I should submit a report?

Chris

Hit the news groups, Brian Harper is running the show on Skinbrowser (Don't shoot me if I'm wrong) and there is a section just for Skinbrowser at news.stardock.com news://news.stardock.com/ someone there will have an answer.

I have been e-mailing Brian some of the crash logs when all of this has been happening to me. He is fixing all this stuff. Will be available soonish.

Glad to hear it. Thanks.

Chris