An installation has been running just fine for 3.5 years and suddenly Filemaker Pro 6 won't start--it gets to Loading IP/TCP and just quits--won't go any further. I disabled virus control, still no go. Is there a Windows 2000 patch that is conflicting with Filemaker? Does anyone have any other ideas? thanks for your help

Since I don't do windows, I can't be much help. However, when this happens to me on the Mac, it is usually tied to something I have added in the way of an application, or drivers.

So, I check what has changed in my system on or about the time FileMaker, etc. changed it's behavior.

HTH

Lee

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Hi Gingy,

As Lee says, something must have changed.

If you have any plug-ins installed, I suggest uninstalling them to see if that makes a difference.

Failing that, it may be worth uninstalling FileMaker 6 and reinstalling it afresh, which may correct a corrupt preference setting in the registry if that is the issue.

It may also be worth doing some housekeeping - eg flushing out the temp folders in case you have a gremlin lurking there. To do this, use Disk Cleanup, which is generally located at Start, All Programs, System Tools, Disk Cleanup (at least, that is where it is on XP, I don't for the moment recall if the default location is the same on Win2000, but I don't think so).