Re: How to kill ORCAD 10.5 Capture in three operations

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:39:20 -0700, "Joel Kolstad"
<JKolstad71HatesSpam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>We've just upgraded from ORCAD 9.2 to ORCAD 10.5 and, while I'm finding some
>improvements I like, I'm always dismayed when I can manage to crash a new
>application within 5 minutes of use. Has anyone else observed this?
>
>Perform the following (Windows XP SP2, Pentium IV PC):
>
>1) Start ORCAD 10.5 Capture
>2) Hit F1 for help
>3) Click on the "Index" table in the help window
>
>Crash!!!!! (You're given a chance to save your work but then ORCAD is
>unceremoniously shutdown.)
>
>I've observed this on my own system and that of a co-worker. I wouldn't be
>surprised if this is due to ORCAD's installation routine overwriting some DLL
>that it shouldn't be... in ORCAD 9.2, after installation Microsoft's MSDN
>would never work and we eventually traced the problem to the installation
>program registering an old version of hhctrl.ocx (without bothering to check
>if the already installed version was newer) :-( .
>
>I'll shortly report this to Cadence but my experience is that results often
>happen a lot faster on Usenet...
>
>---Joel Kolstad
>
>

He who uses Capture deserves it ;-)

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