Ok, I've got a question... and since this is the only real "tech-head" community I hang around, I don't really know of anywhere else to ask it...
On WindowsXP, is there any way to figure out why an app is hanging even though it doesn't explicitly crash??
I've tried to download AIM, and usually what happens is it will run the first time after I install it. Then every time after that, it just... doesn't... I run it, and its taskbar button shows up, but no windows for it show up at all. The process list says its running, but it just sorta... stops... before it actually does anything. And it will sit like that forever, unless I kill its process. It's been like this over the course of several formats/reinstalls of windows and of AIM, and it happens on every single version I've tried (production and beta). I've made sure it's the very first thing I install on the system, and it still does it. Nothing in the AIM faqs says anything about this, they only list actual error messages and such. And this doesn't generate any error at all. It just sits there.
I've been using GAIM instead since Trillian is utter tripe as far as I'm concerned, but now I got a new screen name and need to export my buddy list from the old one and import it into the new one... and GAIM doesn't support that. So I really need to figure out a way to run AIM, I guess.
So, is there some way to figure out why it keeps hanging, some log file that keeps track of all errors that programs generate whether they crash or not? I'm hoping maybe if I can figure out what's causing it, I might be able to think of a way to fix it.
Thanks in advance!
---Jamin
