Bill

I'm wondering if the fact I am using a mirror copy of Guide instead of a normally
installed copy on Vista that could have some effect on this problem ??

It was mirrored over from a hard drive that Guide had been installed while using XP
as the OS.

Larry Wood

>
> My guess would be that, given a little more time, Guide would have
> gotten around to opening the 'startup.mar' file for writing out the new
> version. That would make it a zero-byte file. Guide is clearly getting
> the message from Windows that Guide should close up shop; but Windows
> then pulls the rug out from under Guide, turning off power while Guide
> is in mid-shutdown. A rather horrifying way to behave, in my opinion!