Draw 9 not responding

I've been using Draw 9 for years with no problem, but recently it has 
been crashing quickly and consistantly, freezing, and when I go to the 
Task Manager it shows that the program is "not responding." After 
waiting a couple minutes it doesn't come back and if I "end process" 
Corel deletes all information in the file, leaving a blank sheet. 
Occasionally an error message comes up-- the "Unexpected error
message", 
but no other clue as to why it stops "responding." Im on XP Sp2.

F8 doesn't seem to help. It did change the workspace, but soon as i 
opened a file it locked up. Tasl manager shows 100%cpu usage and Corel 
as "not responding."  No error message or any other indication of what

is going on or what is causing it.....

Ron Francis wrote:
> I gather you've been using it on XP for a while without problems?
> First thing to try is pressing f8 as your booting up Corel.
> This will reset Corel's configuration to its default.
> You will lose any custom workspaces so you may want to save your current
one 
> first.
> 
> Regards,
> Ron Francis
> www.RonaldFrancis.com
> 
> 
> "Helpless John" <fish@losrios.com> wrote in message
news:4650bc7d_1@cnews...
> 
>>I've been using Draw 9 for years with no problem, but recently it has
been 
>>crashing quickly and consistantly, freezing, and when I go to the Task 
>>Manager it shows that the program is "not responding." After
waiting a 
>>couple minutes it doesn't come back and if I "end process"
Corel deletes 
>>all information in the file, leaving a blank sheet. Occasionally an
error 
>>message comes up-- the "Unexpected error message", but no
other clue as to 
>>why it stops "responding." Im on XP Sp2.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 

"Helpless John" <fish@losrios.com> wrote in message 
news:4651df17_3@cnews...
>
> F8 doesn't seem to help. It did change the workspace, but soon 
> as i opened a file it locked up. Tasl manager shows 100%cpu 
> usage and Corel as "not responding."  No error message or any 
> other indication of what is going on or what is causing 
> it.....
>
> Ron Francis wrote:
>> I gather you've been using it on XP for a while without 
>> problems?
>> First thing to try is pressing f8 as your booting up Corel.
>> This will reset Corel's configuration to its default.
>> You will lose any custom workspaces so you may want to save 
>> your current one first.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ron Francis
>> www.RonaldFrancis.com
>>
>>
>> "Helpless John" <fish@losrios.com> wrote in message 
>> news:4650bc7d_1@cnews...
>>
>>>I've been using Draw 9 for years with no problem, but 
>>>recently it has been crashing quickly and consistantly, 
>>>freezing, and when I go to the Task Manager it shows that the 
>>>program is "not responding." After waiting a couple
minutes 
>>>it doesn't come back and if I "end process" Corel deletes
all 
>>>information in the file, leaving a blank sheet. Occasionally 
>>>an error message comes up-- the "Unexpected error
message", 
>>>but no other clue as to why it stops "responding." Im on
XP 
>>>Sp2.
>>>
One thing to check is the default printer. I seem to recall 
reports that if Draw could not access the printer, it would get 
hung up. The problem was especially common with people using 
networked printers. You might install a postcript driver as the 
default printer to see if that helps.
-- 
Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg

I gather you've been using it on XP for a while without problems?
First thing to try is pressing f8 as your booting up Corel.
This will reset Corel's configuration to its default.
You will lose any custom workspaces so you may want to save your current one 
first.

Regards,
Ron Francis
www.RonaldFrancis.com


"Helpless John" <fish@losrios.com> wrote in message
news:4650bc7d_1@cnews...
>
> I've been using Draw 9 for years with no problem, but recently it has been

> crashing quickly and consistantly, freezing, and when I go to the Task 
> Manager it shows that the program is "not responding." After
waiting a 
> couple minutes it doesn't come back and if I "end process" Corel
deletes 
> all information in the file, leaving a blank sheet. Occasionally an error 
> message comes up-- the "Unexpected error message", but no other
clue as to 
> why it stops "responding." Im on XP Sp2.
>
> 

Great memory, Ken!  Wow, I'd forgotten completely about that!

PDFCreator (not to be confused with PDF "space" Creator) has an 
excellent dummy PS printer that I use more often than my inkjet, and 
that I seem to have fewer problems with than the .PDF export from 
versions 9 through X3.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Vin¢

Ken Wampach wrote:
> One thing to check is the default printer. I seem to recall 
> reports that if Draw could not access the printer, it would get 
> hung up. The problem was especially common with people using 
> networked printers. You might install a postcript driver as the 
> default printer to see if that helps.