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#1 Pagemakers

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Posted 29 June 2005 - 08:37 PM

I have ad-watch set to run when windows starts, but 50% of the time ad-watch crashes on start up.

If I manually run as-watch there is not a problem.

Any ideas?

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#2 Pagemakers

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Posted 30 June 2005 - 11:40 AM

Anyone here?

#3 Guest_Andy_veal_*

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Posted 01 July 2005 - 10:30 AM

I personally am not experienced with Ad-watch,

I will try to get someone more experienced to assist you.

#4 Semitallsmalls

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Posted 03 July 2005 - 03:35 PM

This very same problem happens to me, although its more like 80-100% of the time.
I have AVG antivirus and ZoneAlarms. Both are also configured to launch at startup. When I click on the report error, microsoft tells me that its a problem with ad-watch and that they're aware of it and yada yada. Anyone have a fix or is this happeneing to everyone?

#5 Semitallsmalls

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Posted 03 July 2005 - 11:22 PM

Well, this isn't a fix, but it works. If you set ad-watch to NOT boot up on starup, and then drag the icon of ad-watch into your startup folder of your start menu, it should work. Though it won't miniminze automatically to the tray, at least it opens up right away so i remember to use spyware protection.

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Posted 04 July 2005 - 01:43 AM

Thank you all for your input.

I am sorry these problems are happening to you.

I hope they are solved within the next build update.

:tazz: Thank you for your support

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Posted 04 July 2005 - 09:41 AM

Semitallsmalls, on Jul 4 2005, 06:22 AM, said:

Well, this isn't a fix, but it works.  If you set ad-watch to NOT boot up on starup, and then drag the icon of ad-watch into your startup folder of your start menu, it should work.  Though it won't miniminze automatically to the tray, at least it opens up right away so i remember to use spyware protection.
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Tried that and still crashes on startup (although I do still have minimise on startup selected).

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Posted 05 July 2005 - 02:00 PM

Andy_veal, on Jul 4 2005, 08:43 AM, said:

Thank you all for your input.

I am sorry these problems are happening to you.

I hope they are solved within the next build update.

:tazz: Thank you for your support
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1) Is it a know problem?

2) When do you anticipate the new build?

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