Posted by nycram on 10/27/06 15:02

I had the problem with 3.53 when I changed to XP SP1. 3.54beta was
upgraded to work with XP SP1. As soon as WinMx went public with 3.54,
Microsoft broke it by releasing SP2.

The problem must be a rarely occurring one, because it doesn't happen
for ages, but once it happens, it will keep coming back. So the people
who say there's no problem just haven't encountered it yet.

You can read the article at the pcmag.com website entitled "Old Apps
Find A New Home On Windows XP" for more info.

Specifically, the article links to a MS tool for testing compatibility
of an application with a specific release of XP or Vista.

Gary

Joe wrote:
> Cool, thanks for the tip, Gary! (I'm surprised more people don't have
> this problem.)
>
> And thanks for the link Morton, looks interesting.
>
> Joe
>
> nycram wrote:
> > Joe wrote:
> > > Hi. I've been successfully using winmx for years with mxmoni. These
> > > days I'm running XP on a machine with 1.5gb of RAM.
> > >
> > > A few months ago I started having this annoying problem-- after running
> > > for a day or so, the text in winmx starts disappearing. It stops
> > > "printing" the text lists of uploads and downloads and also
> > > text in incoming messages and whois boxes and some menus aren't
> > > displayed.
> > >
> > > I had the feeling that it might have been a virtual memory problem, but
> > > I increased it and that didn't help.
> > >
> > > Then I thought maybe it was an incompatibility with an anti-spyware
> > > program I run, Security Task Manager, but it still happened when I
> > > closed that.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > Try this:
> >
> > Close down WinMx when you have the problem.
> >
> > Right-click on the WinMx.exe in your Program Files WinMx folder.
> >
> > On the menu that appears, click on Properties.
> >
> > On the popup window that appears, click on the Compatibility tab.
> >
> > Check-mark the box next to "Disable visual themes".
> >
> > Restart WinMx.
> >
> > It works for me when I have this problem. The WinMx window won't be as
> > pretty, but you won't lose the text. Apparently WinMx is not fully
> > compatible with all the snazzy hotrod stuff in XP.
> >
> > Gary

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