The nightmare continues

[videot]

After months of not being able to do even my first transfer I finally got the latest verson of SonicStage 3.2 & was able to do one transfer. Then I had problems with an omgibox error poping up.

Because nothing was working I yesterday dleted all of the softaware & than did a reinstall. Again I was able to do one transfer without a problem. Today I try to open SonicStage & get the message that 'omgibox.exe has encountered a problem & needs to close'. What's wrong now? When will this nighmare be over?

[atrain]

what version of windows are you running? have you upgraded to the latest service packs? sounds to me like the infamous omgibox.exe problem

[videot]

I'm using XP PRO with SP2 & all of latest updates. I preveiously had all of the omgibox.exe problem you mention. After wasting lots of time I eventually got beyong that problem & made one disk. Then I could not make a second one because SonicStage could not see my machine. The new version of SonicStage 3.2 fixed all that & again I got to make one disc before nothing worked.

I deleted everything & then did a reinstall. I even has 'my library' reimported & got to make one diskmade before omgibox.exe errors came again. I can't afford to spend my live beta testing Sony's buggy software. These problems surprises me a bit because Sony also has it's name on some of the best bug free software around, Vegas video editing software. But mayby the difference is that Vegas was bought by Sony from Sonic Foundry & just inherited software writers which knew what they were doing. Maybe whey should be looking at Sonic Stage.

[A440]

If it worked correctly once, that means it's fully installed. The question is, what happens after you close the program and shut down the computer? Do you have any security programs--firewalls, etc., like ZoneAlarm, Black Ice, Norton Internet Security--that could be preventing applications from running?

First, run a spyware/virus check like the online

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

If that doesn't turn up any possible problems, then try this experiment.

Click Start/Run and type in msconfig <Enter> . Go to the Startup tab and uncheck your security software so it doesn't run automatically on startup.

[This is also a good time to look for programs that are loading on startup that you don't need--Realplayer, Quicktime, Acrobat Reader--and uncheck them too. If you don't know what something is, type the program name into Google. Don't confuse LSASS for ISASS, which look the same in lower-case. SSaaD is something from SonicStage, leave it alone.]

Save your changes.

Write down what you've changed, because items in that box will be in a different order next time you run it.

Shut down the computer, disconnect from the internet (since your firewalls are going to be down) and reboot. (Click past the "You have run the System Configurator" box.) If SonicStage is working again, you'll know it's because of one of the Startup items you disabled. Once you've figured out which one, then you can play with its settings.

[Syrius]

Hey, is there an equivalent of MSConfig for Win 2000?

[greenmachine]

Stupidly it's not pre-installed, but you can use the Win XP version of msconfig:

http://www.techadvice.com/win2000/m/msconfig_w2k.htm