Tip: How to unhang ArchiCAD 9 under Vista

[Laszlo Nagy]

I am using Vista and sometimes I have to use ArchiCAD 9 on it, while ArchiCAD 9 is not supported under Vista, having been released much earlier.
I found that if I go to any other program, ArchiCAD 9 hangs and I have to force quit it.
However, recently I accidentally found the solution:
I go to any other application, select something and press CTRL+C to copy it to the Clipboard. ArchiCAD 9 miraculously comes back to life and continues to work fine. If it happens to hang again, I repeat the same fix and it is again in good working order.
Maybe it happens only on my machine, but let's hope this info is useful for others, too.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Some of us experienced AC 9 hanging under XP related to the clipboard:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=53246&highlight=copy+hang#53246

(and earlier posts). Could this Vista thing be related? It sounds like you did not do a ctrl-C in AC, but merely switched to another app to get AC 9 to hang?

Thanks,
Karl

[Laszlo Nagy]

Karl wrote:
Some of us experienced AC 9 hanging under XP related to the clipboard:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=53246&highlight=copy+hang#53246

(and earlier posts). Could this Vista thing be related? It sounds like you did not do a ctrl-C in AC, but merely switched to another app to get AC 9 to hang?

Thanks,
Karl

Yes, I switch to any other app, Windows Explorer, mail, browser, anything, and AC9 hangs. Then I do a CTRL+C in any app, and it unhangs.