[RESOLVED] Screensaver - "AnyKey" will not exit

[Spot]

Hello,

I recently upgraded my arcade cabinet with a now extra copy of Vista-x64. Everything is working great, however I am unable to exit attract mode via an "Any" key-press:

• ESC will exit (Exit Combo does not exit)
• Mouse clicks will exit
• Game-pad will exit

I have GameEx set to play only videos during attract mode right now to rule out emulators. Additionally, I made a test install on a Win7 64bit machine (which works as expected) then copied it over to the Vista machine (then does not work as expected). The Vista machine simply seems to ignore key-strokes. Has anyone ran across this before?

Please see attached logs/configs. The exit on keystroke is me pressing the ESC key, it will not recognize any other key.

log.txt

GameEx.ini

Best Regards,

-John

[solution:1.10.13]

Root Cause: COMODO Internet Security 2013

Back Story: After deciding to upgrade to Win8 and move a copy of Win7x64bit to the Arcade, the problem reappeared. I did not notice this on my earlier tests as the Win7 computer had "COMODO Internet Security 2012" and '12 does not seem to cause this issue. (I do recall 2013 working with WinXP though) -John

[thurmansevolution]

I've never really tried to use Vista as the operating system for the arcade, but from what I understand, Vista has always had plenty of bugs to it in general. (Sorry Bill Gates, lol)

I would honestly think that Vista has something to do with it - I may have missed something, but when lurking through your .ini and log files, couldn't see anything that stood out - plus with the info of it working on Winders 7, I can pretty much guess that Vista is the culprit.

What I would suggest (and this may bring you in the Stone Age) is to go with Windows XP - I've had issues before with Windows 7 and it's memory usage (to me, it had bugs with videos in attract mode), which seemed to clear right up after a fresh install of XP. Plus, instant sheller hides more of the operating system in XP than in 7.

Hope this helps!

LC

[Spot]

Hello LC,

Thanks for responding. I guess I will revert to WinXP then.

(I'll leave this thread open for a few more days, then mark it as resolved: known solution at this time is to revert to XP)

-John