Need Help With Hoster 4.32 ...

[kod]

I am working on a friend's laptop with Hoster 4.32. It was working perfectly up until last Saturday night (6-4-11) and has been working fine for 2-3 months.

Starting last Saturday night, everytime you stop a song or Hoster ends a song, Hoster shuts down. I disabled Norton and then Hoster ran two songs with shutting down, but it still shut down at the end of the second song.

Don't know where to go from here. Got any suggestions?

It is a Toshiba with 4gb of RAM, Win 7 and is used only for Hoster. It has a 500 gb hard drive with only 75.3 gb used. More specs. listed below:

Toshiba Satellite L-645-S4102
Dual Core Processor
Intel® Pentium® Processor P6200
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
Graphics Engine Mobile Intel® HD Graphics
Graphics Memory 64MB-1696MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory.

[Roy Dennis]

Have you tried restoring it to a date before this problem started ?

It may be related to an automatic update to something on his computer even a Microsoft update or Norton.

If restoring to a previous time corrects the problem it may start trying to install the update again so check after each auto update to see if the problem returns. This will pinpoint the problem if restoring to earlier time solves the problem.

You say that after disabling Norton the program shut down after 2nd song, I wonder if Norton is shut down properly.
From reading post in the report Hoster 5.01 problems it seems that the Norton and some other virus program problems have been solved in that version, maybe a good idea to upgrade to that or perhaps try the demo.

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

From reading post in the report Hoster 5.01 problems it seems that the Norton and some other virus program problems have been solved in that version, maybe a good idea to upgrade to that or perhaps try the demo.

Correction to my previous post, this isn't in the above thread and it wasn't related to Norton but AVG. You would not have been able to read this post as it was in a beta testing thread.

[ddouglass]

What was done or changed between the last good show and the one where problem started?
I would also suggest trying to uninstall Hoster and re-install it. Be sure you do that on-line.
Is the Automatic Update turned on for this computer and the computer on-line when not doing shows? If so I would change it to notifications rather than auto installing. That way you know what is being installed in those updates.

[kod]

Dale & Roy,

I have no idea what changed between shows. My friend owns the Bar and this is his equipment. He has a young girl operating it and she knows only what I've taught her about Hoster.

It could have possibly been an automatic update.

I have instructed her and some others that operate his system to only run the show in Hoster and do not touch any background stuff! That is my job. I only take care of it as a friend!

He is due Hoster 5 as a free upgrade. Do you that think if I upgrade his laptop, this will solve the problem?

It was my plan to upgrade my system to Hoster 5 before I upgraded his, but MTU had a problem with PayPal Sunday when I paid for my ungrade and only got my registration straightened out yesterday.

Since I have shows Thursday, Friday & Saturday, I won't upgrade my system until Sunday. I want some testing time (3 days at least) before I do a show after upgrading!

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by kod

Dale & Roy,

I have no idea what changed between shows. My friend owns the Bar and this is his equipment. He has a young girl operating it and she knows only what I've taught her about Hoster.

It could have possibly been an automatic update.

I have instructed her and some others that operate his system to only run the show in Hoster and do not touch any background stuff! That is my job. I only take care of it as a friend!

He is due Hoster 5 as a free upgrade. Do you that think if I upgrade his laptop, this will solve the problem?

It was my plan to upgrade my system to Hoster 5 before I upgraded his, but MTU had a problem with PayPal Sunday when I paid for my ungrade and only got my registration straightened out yesterday.

Since I have shows Thursday, Friday & Saturday, I won't upgrade my system until Sunday. I want some testing time (3 days at least) before I do a show after upgrading!

I would try the restore first and try re-installing 4.32 before upgrading.