Moderators DennisD Posted October 15, 2008 Moderators Share Posted October 15, 2008 Out of the blue, after using this little tool for months, I get this error when exiting the small Hostsman GUI. The only changes today have been Microsoft updates. Edit: Have tried reinstalling Hostsman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Still working fine for me Dennis Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit - IE11 - Nod32 - Mbam pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted October 15, 2008 Author Moderators Share Posted October 15, 2008 Thanks Mike, I can hopefully elliminate the updates then. I found a site while googling that said try running CCleaner. I'm one step ahead of you mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 15, 2008 Moderators Share Posted October 15, 2008 I remember reading sometime ago that a damaged prefetch file may cause that, don't know if it's true though but anyway maybe it would hurt to first close Hostman then open C:\Windows\Prefetch and delete the HM.EXE-#########.pf file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 15, 2008 Moderators Share Posted October 15, 2008 Also if you haven't did a cold boot in awhile that may help. A cold boot is when you shutdown Windows (not restart), then start the PC. That alone can get rid of some memory problems that cause programs that have always ran stable before out of nowhere to start having access violations/exceptions, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted October 15, 2008 Author Moderators Share Posted October 15, 2008 There isn't an entry for it in prefetch, but I cleared it all the same, and that ain't it, but thx anyway. But I think I'm getting warm. If I select the green H to disable the hosts, the GUI closes without the error, but it isn't actually disabling the hosts file. The System Tray icon stays green, when it should change to red. Open the GUI and sure enough, the hosts hasn't been disabled. Weird. I think I'll try another reinstall, but first have a good sweep of the registry after removing it. EDIT: I'll try the reboot, as I haven't done that since the anomaly (love Star Trek) started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoKenny Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 What version of HostsMan are you running? I seem to remember that failure with an old version. The current version I am running is HostsMan 3.2.69 Beta5: http://forum.abelhadigital.com/index.php?showtopic=553 "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein IE7Pro user Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted October 15, 2008 Author Moderators Share Posted October 15, 2008 What version of HostsMan are you running? I seem to remember that failure with an old version. The current version I am running is HostsMan 3.2.69 Beta5: http://forum.abelhadigital.com/index.php?showtopic=553 The latest stable one, which is 3.1.57. Thanks for the suggestion, but it's fixed now. Uninstalled, did a sweep of the registry, rebooted, and installed with a fresh installer from the same site as your link. I got the other installer from I think Softpedia. I've no idea why it suddenly went weird, but if it happens again I'll give that beta version a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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