Salvaging locate32

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Howard Schwartz

Hello locate32 folks,

Apparently there are many such people who treasure this utility. In a
previous post I mantioned its tendency to crash the OS when closing,
and others provided validation and workarounds.

I played with its options a bit, specifically using windows rather
than locate32's ``own'' methods for doing various things (settings
in the advanced tab), and I now confine myself to closing the application
using its tray ocon (versus closing the window, or using its file menu).

The result is I have not had a single crash since! Either locate32 closes
gracefully or I get an error message that now says locate32 caused a page
fault in application ``unknown'' rather than in the kernal. This error
screen disappears cleanly when you click on it and does not make trouble
in windows.


So others may try such fiddling, and avoid having to define a separate
shortcut for, for instance, taskkiller, just to cleanly close locate32.
 
Hello locate32 folks,

Apparently there are many such people who treasure this utility. In a
previous post I mantioned its tendency to crash the OS when closing,
and others provided validation and workarounds.

I played with its options a bit, specifically using windows rather
than locate32's ``own'' methods for doing various things (settings
in the advanced tab), and I now confine myself to closing the application
using its tray ocon (versus closing the window, or using its file menu).

The result is I have not had a single crash since! Either locate32 closes
gracefully or I get an error message that now says locate32 caused a page
fault in application ``unknown'' rather than in the kernal. This error
screen disappears cleanly when you click on it and does not make trouble
in windows.


So others may try such fiddling, and avoid having to define a separate
shortcut for, for instance, taskkiller, just to cleanly close locate32.
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Thank you for this tip. I have used locate quite a long time, but this
crashing is irritating. Have you mailed the developer? Fixing this
should be his primary task when building new versions
Jari
 
Have you mailed the developer? Fixing this
should be his primary task when building new versions
Jari
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Yes, I mailed the developer with full information. I got no response which
from my review of this issue is what happened to quite a few others.
The developer does not seem eager to fix this.

So far my fidget solution continues to work well. Probably the most
pain free workaround is to use the freeware utility,

taskkiller -wname locate32

And assign a shortcut key to it. It does reliably kill locate32.
 
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