Hi Larry,

> 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 ??

That shouldn't cause trouble. Guide doesn't put anything in the
registry, nor in any folder other than its own. So if you copy it
(and set up a desktop icon to it), it's basically just as if you
had installed rather than mirrored.

Besides, several others have had the same problem, and I don't
think "mirroring" is that common. (The situation I found -- Guide
being shut down before it even had a chance to rewrite 'startup.mar'
-- occurred on a clean install on an XP machine, no mirroring involved.)

I found some suggestions as to how to handle this issue, which
appears to be somewhat common. I've tried one, which appears to work.
I want to test it a little more before posting it... but it looks
promising.

-- Bill

>
> 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!
>
>