Hi Bill,

I know of Clay's setup, he has one of the best general astronomy
sites on the web.

One thing he said in his original post is really strange. "... not
only that, but the info box when you right click on the star fails to
show the star's name either." With Common Stars on, I get all
labels. When I uncheck Common Stars, the only place I _do_ get the
star's name (if it has one) is in the "More info" drop-down box. It
seems to me there should be no connection between Labels and More Info.

I'm also using XP Home, sp3, but with the first July 12
update. Because of this, I just installed this last July 12 update,
and there was no change that I could find.

At 08:00 AM 7/23/2010, you wrote:

>
>Hi John,
>
>Much as I grouse about Microsoft, I have to admit that the
>assorted versions of Windows haven't brought me immense grief.
>Frequently, people will suggest that a given bug has something to
>do with a new version of Windows. I then get all ready to point
>the blame at Bill Gates, only to have to eventually admit that
>OK, I _did_ put a bug in the code.
>
>Exceptions have been in telescope control and one or two other
>small areas where Windows really _did_ change in some way that
>confused Guide. Not often, though.
>
>I say all this because, while it's _possible_ the Windows
>flavor is an issue here, I tend to doubt it. Especially so because
>at least thus far, only Clay has mentioned the issue (anyone else?
>it'd probably help a _lot_ if there were another instance of the
>problem to study). Sad to say, it's most likely "my bad", just
>in some way that is proving difficult to puzzle out.
>
>That said, with it happening on 13 machines, one _does_ look
>for common denominators. Everybody tends to configure Guide a
>little bit differently, and my guess is that Clay tends to maybe
>set up Guide so that dataset X is on, or turned green, or...
>_something_ just different enough to cause the issue. (Though I
>asked him to send me a 'startup.mar', and I didn't find any
>smoking gun, nor was I able to use it to replicate the bug. So
>I'm still digging into it.)
>
>-- Bill

Laren Dart
http://ldart.got.net