Subject Re: dbase2019 not working From JBumatay <jedheart@protonmail.com> Date Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:35:20 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started JBumatay Wrote: Andy and All, My fix. Finally got it to run. After turning off Windows, now Microsoft, Defender, that did not seem to help. I could not find any way to actually turn it totally off. But, I did run Glary's Utilities, for  the first time ever as I used to use System Mechanic but has not been useful in years; I checked the Registry, nothing seemed wrong there as no errors with the dBASE. I checked and cleaned the File Links... and  cleared and saved the PLUS.ini, again; I think that did it. I think that the file lnk links inside the ini might have somehow been creating an issue. That is my thoughts for now. I will be adding back all of the settings for the Defender. If there is an issue again after I do that, then it was that. But for now, it seems that the links to forms and etc. may be the issue. Thank you, JBumatay > All, > > I just started getting this error, dBASE 2019 Executable has stopped working > > It came out of nowhere. It was running. Then I shut the program down and started it later. I do not use the mentioned anti-virus ware. I use the Microsoft Defender. > > Any other ideas? I already tried re-install. I looked at the .ini too. > > > Also, I thought I would download any updates I might have missed from dbase, and Microsoft has been reporting the download file as an unknown file type. > > > > > I am reporting to Microsoft, on their page that this file is known to me. > > Feedback to Microsoft > Download you are reporting: > https://www.dbase.com/downloads/dBASE201900b2618Full20200218.exe > > Copied from their report page for example: > > Please select an option > > I think this is a safe website > I am the owner or representative of this website and I want to report an incorrect warning about this website > > Language used for the download: > English > Language used on the website: > Enter the characters you see > New  |  Audio > Visual Challenge > > Their return page reply: > > Thank you for submitting your feedback. > > Me: I am wondering if the Microsoft safety mechanisms are now flagging all files that they do not know and triggering this issue with not allowing the executable to run. > > Gaetano D. Wrote: > > > On 08/07/23 00:14, Tom wrote: > > > I will try doing that, but I do not think that is the problem!  If I boot my computer up and select something dBase, it will work.  But, if I let it boot all the way, it will not work.  I believe that there is something in the start up, towards the end, that somehow takes away the ability to work dBase. > > > > As Ken hinted, try disabling your anti-virus for a start. Also check the > > Windows Event Viewer for any hint about what is happening. > > > > If dBase has been working fine on that computer for some time, it has to > > be an external factor that is causing the issue (or a hardware issue, > > but that is less likely). Anti-viruses have many times caused that issue > > (Trend Micro and Bit defender as far as I am concerned, Sophos as far as > > others are concerned). If you are in a Corporate setting, ask your IT > > support if anything could cause a program to be recognized as a threat > > in any new security software they have deployed recently. You can ask > > them to whitelist the dBase executable if possible. > > > > -- > > Gaetano. > > >