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Yep...you're absolutely right...I uninstalled Alien Autopsy after finding out the same thing...useless crap anyway. I'll try it now and see if it works. Thnanks again, Mike Yep...that was it. I still get the error message that Visual Pinball encountered a problem but at least it kills itself and I get back to the GameEX menu which is good enough for me. Still I wonder why VP has a problem closing? Hmm....oh well as long as i don't have to keep ctrl-alt-del everytime I want to load up a new table. Thanks again for all your help!!!!!!! Happy Gaming, Mike

Actually I think you're right...I'm pretty sure WindowsXP Home doesn't have taskkill.exe wich unfortuanately for me is the op-system that I have. I did a search on my hard drive for that prog before and couldn't find it. Sure would make things easier though. Maybe I'll give that BeyondLogic prog a shot or maybe I'll try to command line taskkill...I'll try them both and see what happens. Either way thnks for the info everyone!! I agree I'd rather find the problem. I think Bugsolver.exe is part of the bug report system in Windows XP which I'm pretty sure can be shut off but then I don't know if it would still hang or not. Anyway, VP works fine all by itself but then it closes by going back to the editor and then exiting the prog. I'm not too sure how GameEX closes VP.

Thanks for the reply, I'll give that version of vpauto.exe a shot but I ditched it before for the version that I have because it was more consistent with getting PinMAME to be in focus....don't know if you ever had that problem or not but sometimes you would have to go back to the mouse and click on the table to get it to respond wich is a pain for me because I hide my computer and use a cordless gamepad to control everything. Good thought also on the "older" tables....I never play them because i don't know any of them.....hehe. However, I'll try one out though and maybe that would conclude if it's Visual Pinball or VPinMAME giving me the problems. Thanks again, Mike

I followed a couple of tutotorials on the forums here and spent tons of time configuring VpinMAME but for some reason I can't seem to get it exit without ctrl-alt-del pretty much all the time. Any help would be greatly appreciated, here's my config: [Emulator_3] Enabled=True DumbyValue= STARTPAGENAME=Visual PinMAME TITLETEXT=Pinball StartPageLogo=pinball2 ROMFilter=*.vpt RomsInFolders=False RomPath=C:\Program Files\Visual Pinball\Tables SnapPath=C:\Program Files\Visual Pinball\snap TitlePath=C:\Program Files\Visual Pinball\snap BoxPath= CartPath= WorkingPath=C:\Program Files\Visual Pinball\Tables MapKeys=True WaitBeforeKeys= SendKeys= ReplaceDash=False ReplaceUnder=False Capitals=False RemoveBrackets=False ShowDesktop=True Debug=False MAPFile= AlsoLaunch=C:\Program Files\Visual Pinball\vpa1[1].1\VPA.exe Command=..\vpinball.exe -play -"[ROMFILE]" OLDatZip= LaunchBefore= LaunchAfter= configFile=Visual Pinball V2 ExcludedFiles= CustomBackground= PlayMusic= PCGame= DATABASE= GamesIn7Zips= I had it exiting ok yesterday but only tried a few tables and I didn't change a thing today but for some reason it just doesn't go back to the GameEX screen and it just sits there on showing me the table but there's no PinMAME screen in the corner so it seems as if PinMAME might be closing but Visual Pinball is not. I think it may be a Windows thing because things don't go back to normal until I kill the Bugsolver.exe process. Anyone have any guesses?

hi all. I'd first like to thank Mr Speirs for this awsome program I use it with my Laptop hooked up to my 40 inch high-def tv and it's like having 5 gaming systems and a media center all in one while using a cordless joystick to control the whole thing.....man this must be Utopia! I run it through my home theater too and man, let me just say I knew there was a reason I spent all this money on all this crap! Anyway, I was wondering if anyone else is having a problem with crashing aftter exiting Visual Pinball. I use the gamepad to exit (buttons 4,5,6 and left+up) and it worked a couple times but now it crashes all the time. I used the included advanced config to set up the right keycodes for the joystick and I didn't change anything except the code assignments. Any advice on why it would be crashing while trying to return to GameEx would be greatly appreciated.