FM won't even LAUNCH!!

[McCormick]

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.

[McCormick]

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

[Kurt Knippel]

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

[Anatoli]

Virus?:

[McCormick]

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.