[Papyrus-L] Sudden Strange Behavior

[John Fennick]

Running XP, recently with SP 3.

When I open Papyrus often a solid black screen appears. Task manager 
does allow stopping PAP. ON second try, it opens, "New Entry" seems 
to work. But LIST/GROUP takes at least two tries to come up with the 
"Is this the File?". "YES" then brings up "Format OK?", "YES" then 
brings up the Destination list on Device. The system is usually 
frozen at this point but sometimes it allows a selection of a device, 
then freezes. On rare occasion, freezing occurs during misc. other 
command sequences.
I have tried:
         reinstalling PAP
         run anti-virus on all files
         backed-up and restored the BIB files
         downloaded and reinstalled a fresh copy of PAP
         Pap resides on another partition so I also tried loading it into "C".
         Most luck was recovering a complete OS partition from the 
oldest stored image, which worked fine until: thinking all was well, 
I made a new image (two on separate disks). Unhappily, even though I 
deleted all intermediate dated images first, the new images pushed 
the oldest one to limbo. I do think that oldest image was prior to SP 
3 for XP installation, but not sure.

I uninstalled all (but SP 3) windows "Updates" to the date of that 
lost image - no help.
I am reluctant to uninstall SP 3 because that installation was real pain.

Any thoughts on what else I might try?

thanks


John Fennick
jhf2 at bellsouth.net
alt: j.fennick at ieee.org
Tel: 770 949-9132
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Winston, GA 30187
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