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all of a sudden freecell has stopped working. It opens and
displays the board but the hourglass just sits there spinning slowly. I can open a new game but cannot play any cards as it goes back to the hourglass whenever i move the cursor back onto the board. |
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Quote from a previous post.
Problems Running FreeCell And Solitaire with Office XP Installed http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=3D304402 To work around this problem, prevent Ctfmon.exe from running. For = information about how to prevent Ctfmon.exe from running, please see the = following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:=20 282599 - OFFXP: What Is CTFMON and What Does It Do?:=20 http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;282599 Also see: Error: "FREECELL.EXE has caused a general protection fault in CARDS.DLL" = when running FreeCell after installing CleanSweep:=20 http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...ee5be87f85256= 90b0045c40c/2adbd7ff86bc1288852566cf00654c89?OpenDocument Here are some replies I found in past newsgroup posts: "I have now found out the problem for myself! It was to do with having Mcafee Virus Scan 6 installed and when this is running it causes a conflict with Freecell and Solitaire. Disable virus scan when playing and everything works fine!" "He had over 500 emails in his OE in-box and many 100's more saved in other mailboxes. These had a lot of big attachments like .JPG and .GIF files. He started cleaning out his = mailboxes and moving attachments off the HD to CD-R. After all this OE mailbox cleanup, FreeCell works!" "It was a piece of software sent by my ISP (Freeserve) to upgrade my account to AnyTime. If I press C/A/D and disable its ATdialler, FreeCell works." "Free Cell was locking up until, by reading a message on this Newsgroup. I turned off IMGICON.EXE on the Start Menu (Control/Alt/Delete). By instruction from Iomega, after trying updated download for the Iomega Zip drive, I did a search for IMGICON.EXE and deleted it. All Works fine now." -- Source: Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm -- Henri Leboeuf Web page: http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/index.htm === "paul" wrote in message ... all of a sudden freecell has stopped working. It opens and displays the board but the hourglass just sits there spinning slowly. I can open a new game but cannot play any cards as it goes back to the hourglass whenever i move the cursor back onto the board. |
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freecell
Just wondering what you best winning streaks are. I had mine up to 89
in a row. Bossman On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 07:18:31 -0400, "H Leboeuf" wrote: Quote from a previous post. Problems Running FreeCell And Solitaire with Office XP Installed http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=3D304402 To work around this problem, prevent Ctfmon.exe from running. For = information about how to prevent Ctfmon.exe from running, please see the = following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:=20 282599 - OFFXP: What Is CTFMON and What Does It Do?:=20 http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;282599 Also see: Error: "FREECELL.EXE has caused a general protection fault in CARDS.DLL" = when running FreeCell after installing CleanSweep:=20 http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...ee5be87f85256= 90b0045c40c/2adbd7ff86bc1288852566cf00654c89?OpenDocument Here are some replies I found in past newsgroup posts: "I have now found out the problem for myself! It was to do with having Mcafee Virus Scan 6 installed and when this is running it causes a conflict with Freecell and Solitaire. Disable virus scan when playing and everything works fine!" "He had over 500 emails in his OE in-box and many 100's more saved in other mailboxes. These had a lot of big attachments like .JPG and .GIF files. He started cleaning out his = mailboxes and moving attachments off the HD to CD-R. After all this OE mailbox cleanup, FreeCell works!" "It was a piece of software sent by my ISP (Freeserve) to upgrade my account to AnyTime. If I press C/A/D and disable its ATdialler, FreeCell works." "Free Cell was locking up until, by reading a message on this Newsgroup. I turned off IMGICON.EXE on the Start Menu (Control/Alt/Delete). By instruction from Iomega, after trying updated download for the Iomega Zip drive, I did a search for IMGICON.EXE and deleted it. All Works fine now." -- Source: Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm |
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