program locking up

[slsides]

Originally Posted by Beavis

its cheaper to buy a new desktop thats up to speed !

um, gee beavis . . . it's a brand new rig. :P i know, cus i built it myself.

[Beavis]

Originally Posted by slsides

um, gee beavis . . . it's a brand new rig. :P i know, cus i built it myself.

i didnt realize it was a custom built computer. memory is cheaper

[OneEskalera]

Avoid doing anything on holster before the "playing Karaoke file" near to its end time. I also experienced such small inconvience on holster 3.310 once in a while. And my solution to that problem is just avoid searching while the song being played is near its end or make sure you're fast enough to finished the information you need to enter before times reaches zero and changed to the next queu. If holster freezes up just hit "control alt del" to bring up window task manager (XP) then close holster and you'll be able to restart holster again on the last state it was normally closed with the updated entree. Other inconvenience I encountered on 3.310 was the song being played just stop on 0.01 sec and would not change to zero, this I have to hit the "stop button" and go to my next song. Just minor inconvenience and would not stop my show at all.

[ddouglass]

If OneEskalera is right about having to manually stop each song, then the answer would definately be to upgrade as that bug was fixed in a later version. It didn't effect everyone if I remember right. I don't think more memory is the answer.
Shaun, I know it may be a bit unorthodox ( I am/was an IT tech until I retired last October) but may be the only way to see exactly what is going on.

[OneEskalera]

I tried duplicating the problem I encountered in Holster 3.310 ( Holster freezing up when I'm on searching or entering information while the song about to finished/ and about to queued to next song on the playlist) on Holster 3.315, it does not happen on Holster 3.315 for both XP and Vista. So I assume upgrading to the latest holster version is my next step. I still used holster 3.310 on our main karaoke computer (Desktop, home built by yours truly) and did not have any major problem or issues. My home (practice units) karaoke computer were laptops, one with XP home just recently upgraded to 3.315 and new Hp laptop with Vista Home Premium with holster 3.315. So far they both working fine with Vista having UAC disabled. But I'm thinking to switch Hp(vista) to XP if I coud get a free XP from HP because I'm comfortable with XP properties than Vista. I prefer my karaoke computer to be a desktop with microatx form factor because I could built it and troubleshoot it myself if there's some problem and issues unlike laptop. For about twelve years now, I'm building my home computers and by reading some thread in this forum and some related links, gives some helpful ideas when to upgrade and what upgrade I needed. I'm still waiting for Holster 4.0 for my next software but I'm tempted to try holster 3.321 just to find the new features in it. Like i said, I'm satisfied with 3.310 and more than satisfied with 3.315 even I just had for 3 weeks now and most probably be twice more than satisfied with the latest version.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by OneEskalera

I tried duplicating the problem I encountered in Holster 3.310 ( Holster freezing up when I'm on searching or entering information while the song about to finished/ and about to queued to next song on the playlist) on Holster 3.315, it does not happen on Holster 3.315 for both XP and Vista. So I assume upgrading to the latest holster version is my next step. I still used holster 3.310 on our main karaoke computer (Desktop, home built by yours truly) and did not have any major problem or issues. My home (practice units) karaoke computer were laptops, one with XP home just recently upgraded to 3.315 and new Hp laptop with Vista Home Premium with holster 3.315. So far they both working fine with Vista having UAC disabled. But I'm thinking to switch Hp(vista) to XP if I coud get a free XP from HP because I'm comfortable with XP properties than Vista. I prefer my karaoke computer to be a desktop with microatx form factor because I could built it and troubleshoot it myself if there's some problem and issues unlike laptop. For about twelve years now, I'm building my home computers and by reading some thread in this forum and some related links, gives some helpful ideas when to upgrade and what upgrade I needed. I'm still waiting for Holster 4.0 for my next software but I'm tempted to try holster 3.321 just to find the new features in it. Like i said, I'm satisfied with 3.310 and more than satisfied with 3.315 even I just had for 3 weeks now and most probably be twice more than satisfied with the latest version.

Call HP Support and you can request to upgrade that HP laptop with Vista to XP. They will send you a disc to do that.