#145 version 2.0 crashes every few minutes

[feline_dragon]

I am running a win2k SP4 machine inside VMware workstation 6.0.2

The virtual machine has 1 processor and 512meg of RAM.

I have been using Launchy 1.25 for many months on this machine, and it runs perfectly. I have just upgraded to Launchy 2.0 and it has crashed 3 times in 20 minutes. It crashes within 5 minutes of being loaded. It crashes while in the background, the window is not visible, I am not interacting with it in any way at all. The first thing I know about the crash is the error message appears.

I have Launchy 2.0 installed on a similar win2k virtual machine where it is quite stable.

The crash appears to be triggered by having the program TestComplete 5.15 running:

http://www.automatedqa.com/

Since I use this program a lot closing it is not an option.

When it crashes I get the error message:

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The instruction at "0x77fcd989" referenced memory at "0x00780065". The memory could not be "written".
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I tell windows to debug the program in a new instance of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, and when the IDE has loaded I get the error message:

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Unhandled exception at 0x77fcd989 in Launchy.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x00780065.
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selecting break and I get the call stack:

> NTDLL.DLL!77fcd989()
[Frames below may be incorrect and/or missing, no symbols loaded for NTDLL.DLL]
NTDLL.DLL!77fcb80c()
OLE32.DLL!7ce7a711()
OLE32.DLL!7ce7a57b()
OLE32.DLL!7cef550e()
OLE32.DLL!7cef5c06()
OLE32.DLL!7cef5950()
OLE32.DLL!7ce846f6()
OLE32.DLL!7ce3c3d3()
USER32.DLL!77e3a454()
USER32.DLL!77e14605()
NTDLL.DLL!77f91baf()
USER32.DLL!77e1a7f2()
OLE32.DLL!7ce8c5e8()
OLE32.DLL!7ce8c511()
OLE32.DLL!7ce8c44c()
OLE32.DLL!7ce85ba7()
OLE32.DLL!7ce85aff()
KERNEL32.DLL!7c57b3bc()

The only settings I had changed in Launchy 2.0 were:
* the program was set to appear in the centre of the window
* the shortcut key to launch the program was changed to WinKey + Backspace

I have now uninstalled Launchy 2.0 and reinstalled version 1.25

[Josh]

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Try deleting the plugins (.dll files in plugins directory) and seeing if removing any particular one stops Launchy from crashing.

Josh