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slimCODE, aka Martin Plante

What files?

I wanted to upgrade my SmartFTP 2.5 to version 3.0 to overcome many crashes I get on Vista. Not only did the setup told me my maintenance was expired and had to renew it in order to use the upgrade, it told me the following applications were using files it had to upgrade:

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You need to upgrade files in use by slimKEYS? Or by xplorer2? I ... don't ... think ... so!

It would be great if advanced users could see the actual list of files the setup needs to update. Something else missing on that dialog (but that's Vista Restart Manager's fault) is a Retry button. You can't refresh the list after closing apps manually.

Published Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:15 PM by slimcode
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Joe McRay said:

In most cases the "files in use" are Shell Extensions or Windows Hooks. It is actually possible that slimKEYS uses a SmartFTP dll because it was injected to the running process when you pressed a key or just moved the mouse over the window.

June 10, 2008 5:31 PM

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