Crashed !!!!
Help Please!!! I'm a new user and was getting on extremely well with the very impressive MuseScore. I went into 'preferences' to chage a few things - I set font to Comic Sans, language to English GB, and changed a couple of other things. When I OKd the 'preferences' window my computer crashed to a blue screen and went into the hard drive recovery check. When it rebooted I got a message saying that my computer had just recovered from a serious error probably caused by a device driver. I immediately uninstalled MuseScore, ran a couple of registy utilities to clean up the registry and downloaded MuseScore again from the web site.
MuseScore has now changed. All the navigator lettering looks corrupt and only comes solid when a score is opened. The backrounds to 'sound when edit', 'allow midi input' and other buttons are now a hashed grey colour when selected, not white as they were before, all the expansion crosses next to the instrument categories are now not crosses but arrow heads, and there are other oddities which for brevity's sake I won't list.
The program now just feels unstable, if that doesn't sound too silly. I should be most grateful for any adice anyone can give which will allow me to reinstall MuseScore to the stable program it was when I first installed it .....and I PROMISE never to go near 'preferences' again.
Thanks
PS: I'm running it under Windows XP SP3 on an Acer T130, Athlon 64 3200 processor with 1.5Gb ram
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Here are some screen shots: First with no score opened - corrupt lettering. With score opened lettering solid, button backgrounds hashed grey. The instrument selection window corrupt letters, arrow heads not crosses. Any ideas anyone please?
In reply to Here are some screen shots: by Peter B
Did you start windows in Safe Mode ?
In reply to Did you start windows in Safe by [DELETED] 5
No, I just started up as normal. I'm afraid that MuseScore is now crashing my computer on startup, so I've had to uninstall it and leave it uninstalled until I get this problem resolved, if that's going to be possible. I might have a look at V9.6 when it's available and see what happens.
In reply to No, I just started up as by Peter B
I didn't want to give up on this because MuseScore is such a brilliant application, so at the risk of crashing again I downloaded again and reinstalled. I thought I would try to revisit the 'preferences' field to see what I had done there.
It started OK and I went straight to 'preferences'. I changed everythig that I had changed back to what it was, and I noticed that in the 'style' field was the word 'motif'. Now I don't remember changing it to that - I would have no interest in changing the style setting - but I put it back to 'default' anyway. So that was the 'preferences' window back to what it was before I tinkered with it.
Heart in mouth I closed MuseScore and restarted it...........guess what..........it's back to normal. So what the problem was I have no idea. I suppose it could have been any of the things I changed or it could have been that mystery 'style' field being set to 'motif'. Are the changes evident in the screen shots above in fact a genuine 'motif' style? I should be intetrested to know if anyone else had tried the 'motif' style and if so whether it looks like my screen shots.
One thing's for sure though, I won't be going there again to find out !!!
In reply to I didn't want to give up on by Peter B
Indeed! Motif looks like this.
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/gallery-motif.html
In reply to Motif by [DELETED] 5
Yes, that's definitiely it. There seems to be something in those 'motif' style widgets that my computer doesn't like, but that doesn't seem right somehow. I have no idea what goes on inside my box, but I shouldn't have thought that a change of appearance would cause a crash resulting in a blue screen and a 'major error' message from Microsoft. Ah well, you live and learn. I'll be on tender hooks for a while now though every time I start MuseScore until the confidence returns.
I'd just like to say thanks to everyone involved with giving us MuseScore. It's an astonishing project and very generous and altruistic by all concerned.
Thanks for your help.