Wow another goof on an upgrade! Each time there is an upgrade with a goof, this is the standard answer! (I just installed it yet to use it), but I question this offer for a BETA. Seems with errors on each upgrade these upgrades are no better then 'beta' {users to be guinea pigs}. I'm hoping the 'search' goofs are fixed with the last and no other loss to pages when creating a page (my one former and last upgrade issues).

On 'run as administrator', it seems to be the nature of Windows7 for most of my programs. I generally run CC editor, Thumbsplus (photo program) along with sometimes the now defunct Microsoft Image Composer (has one or two features I like to use), Microsoft Access database (I still tweak to improve my fields), surf the web, check browser mail and another IE or foxfire window for watching a movie (in small screen) and sometimes I have perhaps three to five windows of a client based game open so my game chars collect reputation points by the hours I am logged in on their server - and sometimes call up the calculator or the calender looking for the weekday of a date years prior. {happy dance for larger monitors}

I too run Microsoft Essentials Suite (remember when that used to be Windows Defender?) I also use Malewarebytes which I also run as admin yet is a backup to Microsoft Essentials. I have always disliked Norton and it is one of the first things I remove from a new computer when I get it home! {I dislike most of the programs computer factories install for me and resent that they are in the purchase package when there is no offering for a clean pc with just OS - yes I'm that old}.

Goofs are all relative. I had no problem with the upgrade. It seems most didn't. All I know is that CC is the only Co. that can have an new version out the day someone finds a issue. Try to get that out of Microsoft.

Speaking as only 1 of the handful of us that have been diligently testing the beta, and I do mean diligently *watches Scott pulling out his hair as well as Mike over all the testing* it's probably one of the most stable betas ever. It's still being worked on yes, but many many many things have been fixed, added, updated etc. since the current release version and it's been extensively tested.

Not saying there may not still be bugs, some are still being worked on, and not saying that just like any other software company sometimes a fix creates a break in something else and until someone comes across it there's not always a way to know this, that's par for the course for software.

All I know is we've worked our butts off on this beta, and it's showed 10 fold how the CC team (thanks Mike!) has worked hard to fix what we've found, add our suggestions and over all give us a much stabler program with soooo many awesome new features.

I for one say it's defintely a few cuts above the current release version. And this is by far not a "typical" response

Perfection in man and in all its wonder, takes time, when man think he has reached perfection he is sadly mistaken. -Confucius

Trust me when I say, that many of the bugs you are experiencing have been fixed. But sometimes as the saying goes, when one door closes another one opens works with bugs as well. Coffee Cup is very diligent about fixing these issues and I personally have seen them answer my E-Mails on a bug at 3 a.m. in the morning, saying that they have found the bug and are working on a fix and that same day came out with a new beta where that bug has been fixed. This is of course not always the case. Sometimes it takes a while for them to track the issue down because it involves many different areas of the program, but normally it is fixed within a few hours.

But as Confucius said we can never be perfect, yet we can strive to be the best and that is exactly what CC is doing. Everything takes time... Give us this and you shall be rewarded. . .

Yikes!..........

Head in gear time now....

Well I have to agree with the comments about the team and CoffeeCup HTML Editor,
they are always helpful and though I slip up sometimes, I don't mean to.

The offer of the beta is accepted gracefully by me, and I have had it running for a couple of days,
just me faffin with a few things, but long enough to find my issue persists...

Now..... I wont mention the software but basically I use two programs all the time, the HTML Editor and another, an image album editor that I use to literally drive my site on pages I create in the HTML Editor.

I have always worked with both programs running, minimized or not and switch between the two, as code is copied from one to the other very often, this is just web addresses (links) of albums or features within an album.

I can reproduce this unresponsiveness now, but not very accuratly as the timing of it is a little iffy...

Basically I have the editor open with 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 single page html or php pages open....

If I compile an album in my 'album editor' and start an upload, on going back into the HTML editor it will glaze over when I select a tab or somesuch 'action'....., and it becomes unresponsive.

The photo album editor is still running fine at this point, and has done always in the 7 or 8 years
I have been using it. It never locks up.

Anywaaaaaaaaaaay...... If i complete or cancel the upload action in the photo album editor, and close it down, ie exit the program, the unresponsive HTML editor will stay in limbo for a while, then....
miraculously come back to life.

I have set the editor to run as administrator and this setting has no effect. All other programs I use run perfectly in any situation, and this glazing over has only occured since I started using release 12.6 and also the new beta.

I hope very much its ok to post this, I would really like to get to the bottom of it, and I take on board the slagging Norton has been given, however, I stick by my observation that it never has happen like this before, even with Norton running alongside previous releases of the editor.

Its a strange one and i am trying hard to find some settings somewhere that may be doing it, I even set the windows to be forced to 'cascade' in an effort to find a culprit, I have also disabled any fancy effects that my graphics drivers may have.... All to no avail.

HOWEVER, something just happened which maybe some of the windowsy techies in here may be able to comment on..... I have attatched a screen shot of it...

I run windows7 64bit, and when I minimise a program it dives down to the task bar and the program icon there is in a glowy state, indicating a running but minimised program.

When the HTML editor locked up I managed to get a response from the 'minimise' 'minus' sign in the top right of the window..... The editor minimized but not completely.

I have never seen this before on windows7.... Any ideas

Thankyou all for you help and assistance, it really is much appreciated

Peter

I am glad to still be running Win XP Pro 64. Antivirus is Avira (free version). I have seen no such problems.

You bet I will be fresh-installing, updating and saving a final system snapshot a couple of days before MS drops security support for XP! I have actually set my organizer to remind me to do that.

I shudder to think what Win 8 and Internet Explorer N may bring. Scott, you guys are so wise to diversify yourselves into MacOS!