Hi Gman Yes, I must be lucky or something! One thing though, if I do experience problems with any of my applications incl ZA which I have used (retail, never the free version) for many years, I will not muck a round if it can't be easily fixed....I will just trash it and move on! I just don't have much patience in this area, and there are so many alternative programs out there to choose from nowadays. In the final wrap up I guess it melts down to the adage "horses for courses" ;-) Take care, John Lehn ----------------------------------------------------------- GuitarMan <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John, > I have pretty much been all over the ZA forums > and found that a lot of > folks are having numerous problems with the 7.x > versions. Not all of the > issues are related and not all of those with > problems are suffering through > the same ones. It's also a minority of users who > are/have experienced the > difficulties, so ZA hasn't done anything to fix it. > It's as though there's > something in the newer versions that's conflicting > with numerous other > programs. If you have any of those other apps, > you'll experience some > trouble. If you're running more than one of them, > it just gets worse. Of > course, this is only what my own experience in > addition to all of the head > scratching over at the forums have caused me to > believe. It's not > documented anywhere, just my opinion. ;O} > > I have two different systems here that flatly > reject the version you're > running. One I tried to update but met with > numerous errors (I finally gave > up on that one and left it running 6.5.x) while the > other installed just > fine, but then would run the CPU at 100% for at > least 20 minutes (but > usually longer than an hour) after a hard boot > before releasing it. A > reboot would not always fix it. That one was > uninstalled and reverted back > to 6.5.x as well just to avoid burning out the CPU. > > For what it's worth, the two computers above are > also fully patched XP > SP2 systems. I'm really glad you're not one of the > ones with some of the > problems I discovered at the forums. :O) > > Peace, > GMan <SNIP> -- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/