FireFly not running (FFengine.exe has stopped working...)

[Noble D. Bell]

Sometimes when I start FireFly I get the following message, "FFengine.exe has stopped working, Windows is looking for a fix...".

Any ideas?

I am running:
Windows Vista Home Premium
2Gig Ram
256MB Video Card
2 150gb hard drives
Intel Celeron 3.20 GHz
Latest Version of FireFly

[TechSupport]

Hi Noble,

That's a really tough question. Could be any number of a million reasons.... Maybe FireFly's Armadillo copy protection is not playing fair with your virus protection software? What kind of virus software do you use?

My computer is very similar to yours other than I have an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. I've been using FireFly with Vista for many months now without trouble.

[Noble D. Bell]

I am using the AVG FREE virus protection software. The only other thing that I have installed is of course, MS's Defender.
nb

[TechSupport]

.....Noble, I am also using AVG and MS's Defender...... 

[Noble D. Bell]

I am going to keep my eye on it and when it happens again I am going to try and pinpoint whats going on in the environment. Its pretty weird. If it were more frequent it might be easier to track down. I'll keep you posted. Thanks.

nb

[Roger Garstang]

Never seen this error.  I do have issues when WinSpector is loaded because it thinks a debugger is running and won't start.  The error message text itself sounds weird.  Usually most viruses don't have the best grammar either...and the error you receive falls into that category.  You sure you don't have a virus?  AVG used to be the best, but they do miss some lately.

[Roger Garstang]

Error actually looks pretty common and using Google to find- has stopped working Windows is looking for a fix

Finds a few entries.  A summary of solutions seems to be disabling the UAC stuff, Running it as admin, or repairing the Windows Install.  Or if it were me I'd install SP1 as soon as it came out.  Still might check for other things breaking it too.  Virus/Spyware activity, debuggers running, etc.

[Noble D. Bell]

I am certain that it is not a virus. Unless you want to call the virus Windows Vista!! 

Anyway, I have FF installed on my laptop as well as my desktop and it is doing it on both places. It is not consistant so I cannot determine a pattern. It is not also coming up when I close FF down too. It is very strange.

I have FF set to run in Win XP SP2 compatibility mode along with as ADMIN. It does not seem to help.

Any more suggestions I could try would be helpful.

nb

[TechSupport]

In another post you say that you use WM_COMMAND to do initializations for a ListBox. You do not just place code in that message - You need to filter out the portions of the WM_COMMAND that relate to notification messages from the child controls. If you don't do that then maybe a GPF could occur because you are executing code everytime a WM_COMMAND is sent when, in fact, you only want to execute the WM_COMMAND code when a certain event takes place that travels through the WM_COMMAND (for example, when menu items are selected then a WM_COMMAND message is sent to the parent form; when a Command Button is pressed then a BN_NOTIFY will flow through the WM_COMMAND).

[Noble D. Bell]

I will keep an eye on that. The message in question, in this post, comes up when I first click on my shortcut Icon on the desktop to load FF and when I do a File/Close from the FF menu to shut down FF when I am done working. I done a quick test, this does not always happen this way, to see how many times I could load FF without the notice coming up. I clicked and tried to load FF 10 times. It came up just fine about 1/2 the time. The remainder of the time it would generate the message. The closing is completely sporadic.

nb