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farss wrote on 3/18/2009, 9:11 PM
Something like that a long time ago.
After you close Vegas check in Task Manager that you don't have a Vegas ghost stuck in the machine. If so close it from task manager and then close Windows.

If you're having this issue always check this after you close Vegas because if you open Vegas again you'll have the Ghost of Vegas Past and the new instance of Vegas which did seem not a good thing at all.

I have to say since I installed 8.0b no work inhibiting problems at all down here for me.

Bob.
Tomsde wrote on 3/19/2009, 5:40 AM
After shutting Vegas it doesn't show up in the task manager, but perhaps it would close more completely if I shut it down from there. I'll try that. In the meantime I have sent an email for Tech support to Sony and see what they can come up with. I might also phone them as I have 60 days free supoort.

I was also occasionally getting a Dr. Watson DLL failed to initialize error box popping up once in a while. So perhaps something is still hanging in memory that I can't see.

I thought the Media Manager might have been responsible, so I uninstalled that. But that didn't fix the problem.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/19/2009, 8:12 AM
with vegas 8 there's also the possibility of .net messing up too. Or a dll script buggering out on you & causing issues.

doubtful, but possible. You use media manager? If so, try disabling.
Tomsde wrote on 3/19/2009, 8:53 AM
I uninstalled Media Manager because I thought that I might be the cause of the problem and it didn't help. Although I suppose it might have left some nasty files behind.

I've also cleaned the registry to see if there was something that needed removal that could be causing the problem, but it didn't help.
kairosmatt wrote on 3/19/2009, 9:25 AM
Do you use any external hard drives?

Specifically I've found WD MyBooks can freeze both start ups and shut downs. If they're disconnected before shuting down it doesn't happen to me.

kairosmatt
Himanshu wrote on 3/19/2009, 7:22 PM
What happens if you don't use Vegas at all and shutdown Windows after using it for some time? Is the shutdown faster? Usually it's a driver or service problem at shutdown that causes slow shutdowns. Windows will wait for a certain amount of time for each service to shutdown before forcibly attempting to stop it.
Tomsde wrote on 3/20/2009, 5:51 AM
After a lot of experimenting and a call to technical support, I finally figured out what was going on here. It was suggested that a driver was the culprit--it was. When I set up my Vegas preference, under the tutilage of Douglass Spotted Eagle in his VASST Training for Sony Vegas--I realized that the problem started happening after setting up these preferences. I had pointed Vegas to my soundcard (as was reccomended in the video) driver, I have a Creative XTreme Audio Soundcard. I set it to Creative ASIO. It was only after I'd made this setting that the computer hung when trying to shut down. So I set my Audio Device to Windows Classic Wave Driver and that fixed the problem. I also had to open 2 of my projects I'd created while that preference was selected, delete the original saved file and resave them. After I did them Windows shuts down quickly as it should be.

Well I should now have the cleanest registry on the planet as I'd purchased another Registry Cleaner and it improved both boot and shut down times noticeably. At least something good happended from the whole thing.