Re: [h-e-w] emacs kills Win2k

[Jason Rumney]

piranha <address@hidden> writes:

> in all of the emacs versions i have had the problem that sooner or
> later the system stops responding. keyboard is dead, no task
> switching, nothing.

This sounds like it may be the following known problem (from etc/PROBLEMS):

* Antivirus software interacts badly with the MS-Windows version of Emacs.

The usual manifestation of these problems is that subprocesses don't
work or even wedge the entire system.  In particular, "M-x shell RET"
was reported to fail to work.  But other commands also sometimes don't
work when an antivirus package is installed.

The solution is to switch the antivirus software to a less aggressive
mode (e.g., disable the ``auto-protect'' feature), or even uninstall
or disable it entirely.


-- 
Jason Rumney