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Greg · 02-19-2008, 11:24 AM

I had an interesting anomaly this morning. The display driver failed so I figured I'd better restart the machine and make sure all was OK. It wasn't.

It wouldn't start up, so I fired it up in Safe Mode. After another iteration of fiddling I identified the culprit: Good ol' rock-solid Web Drive!

I haven't found my software license code for Web Drive and don't want to have to pay for another license unless I absolutely have to, which means Web Drive is running in trial mode. I had it set to start up automatically, which means it loads when the system starts. Since I haven't registered it yet, the auto-nag screen tries to come up.

Unfortunately, Web Drive's auto-nag screen tries to come up before the Windows Vista system is fully loaded, and that causes the machine to stop on a blank screen with the disk spinning. Dang it.

I fixed the problem by resetting Web Drive not to load at startup.

02-19-2008, 11:24 AM	#79
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	I had an interesting anomaly this morning. The display driver failed so I figured I'd better restart the machine and make sure all was OK. It wasn't. It wouldn't start up, so I fired it up in Safe Mode. After another iteration of fiddling I identified the culprit: Good ol' rock-solid Web Drive! I haven't found my software license code for Web Drive and don't want to have to pay for another license unless I absolutely have to, which means Web Drive is running in trial mode. I had it set to start up automatically, which means it loads when the system starts. Since I haven't registered it yet, the auto-nag screen tries to come up. Unfortunately, Web Drive's auto-nag screen tries to come up before the Windows Vista system is fully loaded, and that causes the machine to stop on a blank screen with the disk spinning. Dang it. I fixed the problem by resetting Web Drive not to load at startup. __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?