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MUTTLEY wrote on 6/10/2003, 8:10 PM

Okay, this is weird. I'm getting the following error when I close Vegas:

" The instruction at " 0xyyf83187 " referenced memory at " 0x00000000 ". The memory could not be " written ". Click on OK to terminate the program.

That's not the weird part. I have two users on this machine running Windows XP. On one user I get this error, on the other I don't. I've started uninstalling everything under the sun on the user that does crash but it keeps happening. Both appear to have the same process running when I ctrl+alt+delete. I've taken out just about everything that doesn't appear to be critical in " msconfig ". I've killed everything in ctrl+alt+delete that isn't critical, open Vegas and get the error still when I close it. And I've uninstalled and reinstalled Vegas, including deleting its folders and registry entries.

I'm baffled, I'm frustrated, and I'm not looking forward to reinstalling everything that I've uninstalled trying to nail this down.

Any and all advice would be ever so appreciated.

- Ray
ray@undergroundplanet.com
www.undergroundplanet.com

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/10/2003, 11:16 PM

Try deleting the user and making a new one (with a different name). I don't have much expereince with multi users on Windows machines, but I used to use SGI's. Sometimes somethine like this would happen in a user account and the account would be deleted and rebuilt. the error would seem to go away.

MUTTLEY wrote on 6/11/2003, 12:20 AM

Thanks for the feedback, I'll hold off just a few and see if there are any other suggestions though yours may be my only option. The drag will be that I would have to reinstall a bunch of programs for the other one to be up to speed, or re-enter my cd-keys on a bunch of stuff. Not to mention make email accounts in Outlook etc etc etc. Not to far from a complete reinstall ... grovel. On top of that my fear is that after I settle in under the other user I'll end up doing whatever it is over there thats messing up this account.

Any other suggestions ?

- Ray
ray@undergroundplanet.com
www.undergroundplanet.com

jldpc wrote on 6/11/2003, 1:56 AM

Go read this thread:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Win2000/Q_20404853.html

Good luck.

mikkie wrote on 6/11/2003, 8:42 AM

Prob I suspect is in the registry and there's little way to correct that easily - be thankful it's in the user section(s). CD keys and such on the other hand should be stored in the registry where everyone can get to them, so wouldn't expect much hassle there.

Using windows explorer, expand the folder Documents and Settings, expand the folders for the user account that's messing up, copy at the least the start menu, and optionally the whole thing for backup. Then delete the user and make a new one, copying the start menu over. If you want to spend the time exploring the user files and folders, could copy over the rest of the stuff from backup, but do it a little at a time lest you create the same prob. you set out to avoid.