ONLY Atmel Studio crashes my XP SP3
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Few months ago I downloaded and successfully used Atmel Studio 6.1 to program Arduino. To accomplish that the Studio is a hodgepodge of several applications. OK , add-ins / plug-ins. Than one of them, Visual Assist, quit working. Contact with Visual Assist “customer service” was pretty informative – call Atmel Studio, the mother app involved. Than I discovered that Visual Assist worked just fine if I was not using Arduino IDE, build with Visual Micro assistance. Contact with Visual Micro resulted in – you guest it – call Atmel! After quitting using Visual Assist than the whole app , Atmel Studio, decided to crash the XP , just like someone pulled the plug – no blue screen, just power down. Any time, at random. Went thru the usual – unistall this , reistall that , clean-up registry etc etc. - no luck. So I quit using Atmel Studio and went back to plain Arduino IDE , grrr....... Recently I “upgraded “ to Atmel Studio 6.2 only to find out it still crashes my XP anytime I type in any character or move mouse! This time I got events in the OS System events – it reports “customer used CTRL_ALT_DEL and System shut down “feature”! Visual Micro refused to talk to me because “what do you expect from free software “ and “we no longer support unsupported XP OS”. I did not check their response to my subsequent comment “ you did not fix the problem when XP was still on the books”. I am not looking forward to bounce between “customer services” folks who have no desire to make this work for me, just because it “works everywhere else”. I would like to hear from “people who code” what other steps , beside reinstall clean XP, I could take to at least identify why is this happening on Atmel Studio ONLY. I run other apps ( Eagle PCB software, which is a hungry memory hog) on my ancient XP SP3, without any problems. Please be constructive, to the subject at hand, in your suggestion. I do value your time, so let us be reciprocal, OK. Thanks Vaclav
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Few months ago I downloaded and successfully used Atmel Studio 6.1 to program Arduino. To accomplish that the Studio is a hodgepodge of several applications. OK , add-ins / plug-ins. Than one of them, Visual Assist, quit working. Contact with Visual Assist “customer service” was pretty informative – call Atmel Studio, the mother app involved. Than I discovered that Visual Assist worked just fine if I was not using Arduino IDE, build with Visual Micro assistance. Contact with Visual Micro resulted in – you guest it – call Atmel! After quitting using Visual Assist than the whole app , Atmel Studio, decided to crash the XP , just like someone pulled the plug – no blue screen, just power down. Any time, at random. Went thru the usual – unistall this , reistall that , clean-up registry etc etc. - no luck. So I quit using Atmel Studio and went back to plain Arduino IDE , grrr....... Recently I “upgraded “ to Atmel Studio 6.2 only to find out it still crashes my XP anytime I type in any character or move mouse! This time I got events in the OS System events – it reports “customer used CTRL_ALT_DEL and System shut down “feature”! Visual Micro refused to talk to me because “what do you expect from free software “ and “we no longer support unsupported XP OS”. I did not check their response to my subsequent comment “ you did not fix the problem when XP was still on the books”. I am not looking forward to bounce between “customer services” folks who have no desire to make this work for me, just because it “works everywhere else”. I would like to hear from “people who code” what other steps , beside reinstall clean XP, I could take to at least identify why is this happening on Atmel Studio ONLY. I run other apps ( Eagle PCB software, which is a hungry memory hog) on my ancient XP SP3, without any problems. Please be constructive, to the subject at hand, in your suggestion. I do value your time, so let us be reciprocal, OK. Thanks Vaclav
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Few months ago I downloaded and successfully used Atmel Studio 6.1 to program Arduino. To accomplish that the Studio is a hodgepodge of several applications. OK , add-ins / plug-ins. Than one of them, Visual Assist, quit working. Contact with Visual Assist “customer service” was pretty informative – call Atmel Studio, the mother app involved. Than I discovered that Visual Assist worked just fine if I was not using Arduino IDE, build with Visual Micro assistance. Contact with Visual Micro resulted in – you guest it – call Atmel! After quitting using Visual Assist than the whole app , Atmel Studio, decided to crash the XP , just like someone pulled the plug – no blue screen, just power down. Any time, at random. Went thru the usual – unistall this , reistall that , clean-up registry etc etc. - no luck. So I quit using Atmel Studio and went back to plain Arduino IDE , grrr....... Recently I “upgraded “ to Atmel Studio 6.2 only to find out it still crashes my XP anytime I type in any character or move mouse! This time I got events in the OS System events – it reports “customer used CTRL_ALT_DEL and System shut down “feature”! Visual Micro refused to talk to me because “what do you expect from free software “ and “we no longer support unsupported XP OS”. I did not check their response to my subsequent comment “ you did not fix the problem when XP was still on the books”. I am not looking forward to bounce between “customer services” folks who have no desire to make this work for me, just because it “works everywhere else”. I would like to hear from “people who code” what other steps , beside reinstall clean XP, I could take to at least identify why is this happening on Atmel Studio ONLY. I run other apps ( Eagle PCB software, which is a hungry memory hog) on my ancient XP SP3, without any problems. Please be constructive, to the subject at hand, in your suggestion. I do value your time, so let us be reciprocal, OK. Thanks Vaclav
Let's start of with the notion that I do not hunt for errors in two different binary versions of an application on two different computers. If you don't have the sourcecode then anything could be happening. Still, there's a hint in your story:
Vaclav_Sal wrote:
it still crashes my XP anytime I type in any character or move mouse!
Those sound like hooks. I'm betting on Malware on this one :thumbsup:
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Let's start of with the notion that I do not hunt for errors in two different binary versions of an application on two different computers. If you don't have the sourcecode then anything could be happening. Still, there's a hint in your story:
Vaclav_Sal wrote:
it still crashes my XP anytime I type in any character or move mouse!
Those sound like hooks. I'm betting on Malware on this one :thumbsup:
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
Thanks. I did run MS malware , both C ( OS ) and D ( were Studio resides) came clean. I'll try TrendMicro next. Vaclav PS This forum is for discussing.... Thanks Richard , you old policemen, still policing.... Nice to have all that free time and be so helpful in the process. ATmel Studio IS a FREE Tool.
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Thanks. I did run MS malware , both C ( OS ) and D ( were Studio resides) came clean. I'll try TrendMicro next. Vaclav PS This forum is for discussing.... Thanks Richard , you old policemen, still policing.... Nice to have all that free time and be so helpful in the process. ATmel Studio IS a FREE Tool.
Vaclav_Sal wrote:
ATmel Studio IS a FREE Tool.
But you're not "discussing and recommending Free tools for software development"; you're asking for help diagnosing a problem with your computer. It's a subtle distinction, and one that could probably be worded better, but this question really belongs in the System Admin[^] forum. :)
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Thanks. I did run MS malware , both C ( OS ) and D ( were Studio resides) came clean. I'll try TrendMicro next. Vaclav PS This forum is for discussing.... Thanks Richard , you old policemen, still policing.... Nice to have all that free time and be so helpful in the process. ATmel Studio IS a FREE Tool.
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Few months ago I downloaded and successfully used Atmel Studio 6.1 to program Arduino. To accomplish that the Studio is a hodgepodge of several applications. OK , add-ins / plug-ins. Than one of them, Visual Assist, quit working. Contact with Visual Assist “customer service” was pretty informative – call Atmel Studio, the mother app involved. Than I discovered that Visual Assist worked just fine if I was not using Arduino IDE, build with Visual Micro assistance. Contact with Visual Micro resulted in – you guest it – call Atmel! After quitting using Visual Assist than the whole app , Atmel Studio, decided to crash the XP , just like someone pulled the plug – no blue screen, just power down. Any time, at random. Went thru the usual – unistall this , reistall that , clean-up registry etc etc. - no luck. So I quit using Atmel Studio and went back to plain Arduino IDE , grrr....... Recently I “upgraded “ to Atmel Studio 6.2 only to find out it still crashes my XP anytime I type in any character or move mouse! This time I got events in the OS System events – it reports “customer used CTRL_ALT_DEL and System shut down “feature”! Visual Micro refused to talk to me because “what do you expect from free software “ and “we no longer support unsupported XP OS”. I did not check their response to my subsequent comment “ you did not fix the problem when XP was still on the books”. I am not looking forward to bounce between “customer services” folks who have no desire to make this work for me, just because it “works everywhere else”. I would like to hear from “people who code” what other steps , beside reinstall clean XP, I could take to at least identify why is this happening on Atmel Studio ONLY. I run other apps ( Eagle PCB software, which is a hungry memory hog) on my ancient XP SP3, without any problems. Please be constructive, to the subject at hand, in your suggestion. I do value your time, so let us be reciprocal, OK. Thanks Vaclav
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