Hi, still going well with Audacity,
Though in the past week I had two freeze-ups of Audacity requiring a reboot of Win-7 to remedy. It probably has to do with running VLC Media Player beforehand, or a file being open or playing in VLC. Not sure of the exact conditions. It could have been from trying to start a second session of Audacity before the first session rendered itself on the screen.
Any hints?
-Ed
You can have multiple Audacity windows, but not multiple instances of Audacity running at once.
If Audacity(s) , or any other program, causes Windows to freeze,
rather than reboot , go to Windows “Task Manager” , (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) , and end the problematic program [“end process”]…
Thank you, I do open Task Manager a lot, with Ctrl+Shift+Esc but killing tasks in this case would not remedy.
So that means, you can Ctrl+N for NEW window, but DO NOT double-click the Audacity icon a second time?
-Ed
That’s correct : don’t launch a second instance of Audacity.
Probably driver or hardware problems, if you mean that Windows then becomes non responsive. See http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_errors.html#reboot.
Even if you can quit Audacity in Task Manager but Audacity still freezes up until you reboot, it suggests a system problem, perhaps with memory.
You can double-click the Audacity icon but in 2.1.1 all it will do is switch back to the existing Audacity project window.
What it should do is open a new project window (in the same instance of Audacity).
Gale