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there have been times when I thought BIAB hung, but it turned out there was a modal dialog box open in the background. Next time it hangs, try to tab through the open instances to see if a dialog appears. If one comes up, close it.



have you tried this yet?

inability to <CTRL><ALT><DEL> out of an application indicates one of two things:
a memory problem (and I have never seen a thread here suggesting that BIAB has ever had memory access problems) or an open modal dialog box. (which HAS been reported in version 2009.5 more than once)

If you try the TAB procedure and a dialog box eventually comes up and lets you get out of the freeze... that problem is fixed in version 2012

FWIW... when this problem happened to me, I eventually discovered what caused it:
you know the text box where the current style is displayed? You probably already know that clicking on that text box will open the style picker. But in ver 2009.5 when I DOUBLE clicked on that text box, the style picker would open in the background where I couldn't see it, and the computer acted like it was locked up

in summary:
Single click works
double click locks up.

Or maybe it's something else, who knows?

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0