Okay, I thought I'd had problems before, but now I'm totally stuck.

I can't even open FileMaker. If I choose it from my startup menu, if I click on the program itself, if I directly try to open an .fp5 file ... I get nothing! There's a pause, and sometimes the hourglass icon, and then it just stops. No error message, nothing.

This happened on a colleague's computer last week, and I rebooted her machine and it went away. This morning it's happening on mine, and restarting hasn't helped anything.

I don't know what forum to put this in, so I'm just hoping somebody can help.

I'm (not) running v6 on Windows 2000.

Also, I've tried reinstalling, which hasn't made any difference.

First UNINSTALL the application, then make sure all of its files/folders are gone. Now reinstall.

Virus?:

God, I hope not.

I did uninstall the first time before reinstalling. I just did it again and made a point of checking that all files/folders were gone. The only thing I removed manually was the actual shell folder "FileMaker Pro 6", which itself was empty.

However, it does now work. So either that folder made the difference, or it's something else.

I also uninstalled a lot of Yahoo/SBC stuff like their IM program, which just installed itself on my machine recently when I tried to get DSL. They may have interfered; they certainly weren't welcome.

Regardless, it's now working, but I don't have great confidence that it will stay that way, because I still don't really know what caused it or what solved it.