MS locks up on Start

[Jerry Thomas]

I have had an eval copy for just over a week and have had no issues like this.

This morning when I turned my machine on and started MS, it locks up.

I see the "Trial days remaining" dialog (22 days).
The icon shows in the Notification area.
When I right click the icon and select Show, the Scheduler and the News Feed open.

The News Feed never gets focus. I can't select it to dismiss it, and I can't select the scheduler behind it.

Help!

[Marcus Tettmar]

Sounds like the news feed is hanging trying to connect. Let's disable it.

1. Kill the process from task scheduler if you can't stop it otherwise.
2. Run regedit.exe (Start/Run - Regedit)
3. Locate this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MJTNET\MSched12
4. Modify the "RSSOnStartup" entry, setting it to 0:

RSSOnStartup = 0

To do this double click on RSSOnStartup change the value to 0 (zero) and then hit Ok.

5. Restart Macro Scheduler. Now the RSS feed will not open.

It's possible your antispyware/antivirus software is blocking Macro Scheduler from connecting. It should timeout rather than lock you up though! But the above will stop it trying to connect on startup at all.

[Jerry Thomas]

There was no 'RSS' key so I added one and set to 0.
It worked as you thought it would.

You may want to include "Edit / New / String value" to the instructions for people that aren't used to tweaking the registry.

Many thanks for the fast response!