winpatrol oddity

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Sometimes when I do updates I uninstall the original program and sometimes I
do not. It just depends on the program. Winpatrol is oneof those I
uninstall, delete, then download the new program. This time around, with
Winpatrol, ( I always make this program part of suto start), whenever I boot
I now have two Winpatrol's running and appearing in my task bar. I right
click and exit one of them-and the other continues running with all its
options.

So why does this occur? And what are the options to stop the two from
booting? I have not checked ( as in look-see) msconfig or start-up menus
as of yet. But I find this behaviour strange. Does anyone else have this
problem occur with the new update?

tia

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Let the unseen day be. Today is more than enough.

___Sador the carpenter to Turin
Tolkien, The Unfinished Tales

Ellis_Jay
 
Sometimes when I do updates I uninstall the original program and sometimes I
do not. It just depends on the program. Winpatrol is oneof those I
uninstall, delete, then download the new program. This time around, with
Winpatrol, ( I always make this program part of suto start), whenever I boot
I now have two Winpatrol's running and appearing in my task bar. I right
click and exit one of them-and the other continues running with all its
options.

So why does this occur? And what are the options to stop the two from
booting? I have not checked ( as in look-see) msconfig or start-up menus
as of yet. But I find this behaviour strange. Does anyone else have this
problem occur with the new update?
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You possibly installed WinPatrol in 2 different folders. Open your Startup
Folder and you will possibly find 2 shortcuts to WinPatrol. Delete the older
one and you're good to go. Follow the link the old shortcut points to and
delete the files and folder.
 
Bob said:
You possibly installed WinPatrol in 2 different folders. Open your
Startup Folder and you will possibly find 2 shortcuts to WinPatrol.
Delete the older one and you're good to go. Follow the link the old
shortcut points to and delete the files and folder.
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Thank you for that. But I uninstalled the first one, then deleted it. I
kept the program in a folder and deleted all components in that folder after
uninstall. That left an empty folder into which I downloaded the new one.
So that could not be the problem but it must be something else.

--

Let the unseen day be. Today is more than enough.

___Sador the carpenter to Turin
Tolkien, The Unfinished Tales

Ellis_Jay
 
Thank you for that. But I uninstalled the first one, then deleted it. I
kept the program in a folder and deleted all components in that folder after
uninstall. That left an empty folder into which I downloaded the new one.
So that could not be the problem but it must be something else.
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Have you actually looked in StartUp and msconfig?
 
Al said:
Have you actually looked in StartUp and msconfig?
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As of the time of posting the original message to the group-no. For some
reason I could not run msconfig. I spelled it wrong a time or two due to a
brain fart, I guess. I finally typed it right but still I could not get to
the file. I then tried systeminternals and could not find my start up . So
I then used JV-16 and found two running instances of winpatrol there. One
was "system monitor.exe." and the second was winpatrol.exe. I killed one
and left the other. No problems. I think it was something I did when I
downloaded the new version with the update.

I am a happy camper again and now only own one dog down in my task
bar...whooo-hooo-or something like that-I need all the free ram I can get...
lol

thanx Al.

--

Let the unseen day be. Today is more than enough.

___Sador the carpenter to Turin
Tolkien, The Unfinished Tales

Ellis_Jay
 
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