Everything Is Not Opening

[andyloc]

Hi I was reading in here about CineMagic, tried to open it and it flashed on screen then nothing, using through home, the home app minimised to the start bar and then reappeared but no CineMagic.

 

I have now tried a few other things, Import and then same things happen, flashes on screen.

 

tried opening photosuite and it causes a windows error.

 

What on earth is going on here.

 

I havent even started to use EMC8 yet!!

[ggrussell]

Scan your computer for malware/spyware and viruses. There are several very good scanners that are free: Lavasoft's Ad-aware and Spybot Search and Destroy.

[andyloc]

yeh done that, I have the MS one and another from my ISP

 

It is an active one that is monitoring all the time.

Also have restarted PC several times

[andyloc]

mmmm

 

Well I uninstalled MS Antisppyware, and ran a repair on the EMC8 installer using the CD.

 

Now I can open Photosuite and CineMagic.

 

What do you think happened?

[sknis]

Looks like the MS was active and decided that something in V8 was questionable. In the future, when you do an install on any program, make sure you are disconnected from the internet, run your anit-malware programs, defrag, reboot, shut down all your open programs including your anti-virus and anti-spy ware and then install.

 

BTW, I use that MS utility also and installed V8 with no problems. The MS was shut down during the install and I have had no problems since with it running. It looks like my original statement is correct rather than a real conflict.

 

mmmm

 

Well I uninstalled MS Antisppyware, and ran a repair on the EMC8 installer using the CD.

 

Now I can open Photosuite and CineMagic.

 

What do you think happened?

[andyloc]

when I installed EMC8 I followed advice on here and closed everything, defrgged, spyware checked etc 1st.

 

I installed MS antispyware normmaly though.

 

could this have been the prob?

[The Highlander]

In short , some of MS products do questionable things behind the programes trying to run, id bet that the new spyware scanner by them, would have been the issue here, if you have any other issues , try un-installing it and use a cool freeware app like spybot, this seems a beeter product and it tends to screw up other apps less than the MS version, (remember it only just can out of beta)