Hi Bill,

After finding out many things which do not work, I found one which
does. I have a folder in the Guide8 root directory with a few files
I didn't want to lose. It contained an old startup.mar dated
3/23/2009. I replaced the startup.mar in Guide's root directory,
certain it wouldn't work, but it did. I tried every way I could
think of to crash with Guide open, even crossing my fingers and
turning off the power button (which I _never_ do!) The 3/23/2009
file stayed, works fine, and retained all my settings. I don't have
a more recent one to try, but this may help you nail down the
problem. Incidently, before this the bad (?) startup.mar opened
sometimes with 4kb and sometimes with 0 bytes. Hope this helps, Bill.

Larry Dart, XP Home, sp3

At 04:58 PM 4/11/2011, you wrote

> 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
> > >
> > > 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!
> >

Laren Dart
http://ldart.got.net