Bill,

With my fingers crossed, I just tried this as a test and needed disc
1 in the drive from then on. Shutting down with Guide running
doesn't affect startup.mar, it seems to delete guide.exe. Using XP
Home, sp3, G8 22 October, 2010. I think this is the latest version...?

Searching for guide.exe does not find any instances. Searching for
startup.mar shows 4 instances. (I have Guide installed in several
places, paranoid backups, I guess!) Inserting disc 1 lets the
program run guide.exe, but does not replace it. Probably the reason
you have only seen this rarely is that few people shut down with
Guide running, I never have until this test. Does this help?

Larry

At 08:28 AM 4/10/2011, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>also XP!
>
>Konstantin
>
>
>Konstantin v. Poschinger
>
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>Am 10.04.2011 um 16:56 schrieb Denis:
>
> > Bill,
> >
> > This issue appears to be common if Windows(7 or Vista) is shut down with
> > Guide process still on.
> >
> > On 09/04/2011 7:23 PM, Bill J Gray wrote:
> > > Hi Lawrence, Larry,
> > >
> > > I've had several reports of this happening over the last couple of
> > > years. (Which probably means it's happened still more times without
> > > my ever hearing about it.) I still have no idea what's going on with
> > > this bug. I thought it might be due to running two or more instances
> > > of Guide at the same time, with them "colliding" when they shut down.
> > > But I made several fixes that ought to make that situation less
> > > troublesome, and (as Lawrence just found out) it's still happening.
> > >
> > > I mentioned this the last time the bug was discussed on this list,
> > > and should mention it again: when this happens, please think if you
> > > did anything unusual when running Guide just before the bug. That is,
> > > did you play with some setting or dialog box that you don't normally
> > > use? If so, _please let me know_. I am currently without any ideas
> > > as to why 'startup.mar' gets clobbered. The ideas I have had (such as
> > > the multiple-instance one) keep getting shot down. I've been unable
> > > to replicate the bug on any of my machines, which of course doesn't
> > > make it any easier to find and fix the problem.
> > >
> > > In the meantime, the only fix I can offer is the one Larry suggested:
> > > replace 'startup.mar' with another mark file. (I suggest in any case
> > > that you create a "my personal defaults" mark, one that reflects your
> > > preferences for time zone, lat/lon, display formats, colors, data
> > > shown, etc. This is useful just in case you find someday that you've
> > > gotten things really confused in Guide: you can load up your "personal
> > > defaults" and get things back to the way you prefer.)
> > >
> > > Thanks! -- Bill
> > >
> > > ldjhandm wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Thanks - just the job. Somehow the file had become empty!
> > >>
> > >> Lawrence
> > >
> > >
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