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I recently began using Real Basic. My computer is running XP. In general everything goes pretty well. I have a shortcut on my desktop to launch Real Basic 2009r4. Periodically, after programming in RB, like once every day or two, I cannot start RB. I double click the icon or right click and select open. It appears to try to start up for about 1 second but then just ceases. If I then reboot, it comes up fine again for a while. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this or how I can determine the cause. Prior to installing RB, my machine was typically only being rebooted by MS updates which sometimes were weeks apart.
Thanks,
Bill

I don't know of anything specific, but REALbasic is known to not run very well on Windows XP. Apparently there's a memory-related bug in XP that causes RB to behave badly. Maybe this is your cause?

So for REALbasic development on Windows, you really ought to be using Windows Vista or Windows 7. I know Window Vista got a bad rap, but Windows 7 is really quite nice.

Thanks for the info. I suspected a memory leak issue. I have so MUCH stuff on my PC, I am dreading the update to 7.
Generally, I don't mind updates at all but having to wipe my machine clean and reinstall will take a couple of days.
Thanks again,
Bill