Hi Guenter,
This is related to my other (recent) post about templates as well, as it's happening when I right click within the WinDev API - when I right click on New Window on the treeview to the right and the on the New Window window when it's trying to display the templates for example. And the strange thing is, it doesn't seem to happen anywhere else on my PC.
It was happening in Vista Business but I've upgraded to W7 Home Premium and it's still happening. Graphics card is an ATI Radeon X1200 series and there are no updates waiting optional or otherwise.
In the Resource Monitor it's showing that it's the csrss.exe Windows routine/process that's causing WD to hang - the csrss.exe is the bit of windows that handles the processes related to the windows and objects that are displayed.
I think youmay be right about the graphics card etc... but I need to find it. Now that I have found that it's the main Windows client/server handling process that's hanging, as I said, I think I'm going to need the symbols from PCS to get to the bottom of this - I'm almost there.
In the "Resouce Monitor" (type Resource Monitor" into what used to be referred to as the Run option of the Windows Start Menu), CPU tab the hanging process is highlighted in red and if you right click on it you see an Analyze Wait Chain option and this gives the hanging process.
You can also (as I did) download the begugging system from Windows that uses these symbol files to help locate problem like this, but I need the PCS ones to finish the debugging...
Thanks...