Hello Cal,

Well, here it is end of March '05 (3/25 to be exact), and these problems
about Money just stopping to work are still occurring to those of us who
aren't aware until reading this newsgroup. Why is there still no Knowledge
Base artice or patch for this problem? Microsoft needs to post a work-around
and quickly make a patch. They can't expect everyone to find these
newsgroups to find this fix.

I have the latest build (1105), which it seems others had as well. I was
adding about 10 more investment transactions to an account. Afterwards, it
wouldn't open again. There is evidently some limit as to how many
transactions can be in an account before this Investment module on the home
page goes wacko. After having to start over with a 2 week old backup and
saving in stages, I finally figured out that it just seemed to blow up after
adding certain investment transactions back in.

Please try to get the Money developers to listen and to fix this!!!

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, David Ratonyi wrote:

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Here is where I had picked that up. Glad you are up and running.
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups...05&safe=images

Thanks Cal!

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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It was the Investment Performance module. Maybe I should consider some
better investments )

"David Ratonyi" wrote:

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It appears to have fixed it. I had all three of the investment modules on
the home page - chart of the day, performance, and summary.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, David Ratonyi wrote:

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Cool. Next step is from that empty file,
:Tools-> Settings-> ProgramSettings and set the (General DisplayStartMoneyWithThisPageOpen:AccountList

Open the problem file.

Then Tools-> Settings-> HomePageDisplayOptions and Remove all of the
Investment items. I don't remember which is the potential problem
one, but if this gets you going, we can worry about where to go
next.

File not found - also searched entire C drive.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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I did try creating a new empty money file and it did not have the same problem.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, David Ratonyi wrote:

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Try this in a command window;
dir "C:\Program Files\sample.mny" /s

If you find it, I suggest you copy it to your "My Documents" folder
and open it from there.

I have version 14.0.125.1105. I can't find sample.mny. I don't know why, but
I have a Money and a Money 2005 folder under Program Files, and there are
three MNYCoreFiles directories in the 2005 folder (BAK and NEW in addition to
the main folder) Installed from downloaded webinst.exe as upgrade to Money
2004 originally, before uninstalling and re-installing.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, David Ratonyi wrote:

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Does the locking up occur as soon as you launch Money? Can you do
Help-About, and if so, do you have version 14.0.*.1105?

If Money is closed and you launch it by double-clicking sample.mny
in your install folder, does it open and not hang?


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Locking up means the program is not responding. I can open task manager and
force it to terminate. Other times it just closes unexpectedly without
reporting any error. Only one time it actually presented an "unexpected
error" message before shutting down.

I also have McAfee anti-virus automatically updating and scanned with both
Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D

-David

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, Anne wrote:

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You too haven't installed SP2 on your XP box?

When you lock up, will Windows Task Manager respond? What does lock
up mean to you?


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I'm having the same problem, but it also prevents me from going to msn.com
and has been causing problems for Messenger. Two virus scans later, I haven't
found anything directly related. Does anyone know of a specific virus that
would do this, or any way of correcting it?


"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, David Ratonyi wrote:

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I suggest you scan for worms or virus.

Any ideas? Are there any temp files I should try to clear? Running XP, not
SP2, but getting ready to upgrade.