mAirList dies

Archive mAirList 2.x (English)
1

Yesterday, mAirList crashed on my brand new laptop, Media Center Edition, 1GB memory and 80 GB hard drive. Since then, the computer has been DREADFULLY slow and I can’t re-launch the program any more - it simply says that mAirList has crashed and would I like to send an error report to Microsoft?

Are there any other processes that mAirList starts up that I could kill in order to try and relaunch it?

2

Just an update…

When trying to play audio in Winamp, I get the error:

DIRECTSOUND OUTPUT 2.46 (d) ERROR
Bad DirectSound Driver. Please install proper drivers or use another device in configuration.

Error Code: 88780078

3

Try a full Shutdown (NOT a Hibernate!) first, then reboot.

Otherwise, it does appear that your DirectX is broken; or at least the DirectSound part of it. That should be curable by grabbing and installing the latest version of DirectX from Microsoft.

I am not familiar with ‘Media Center Edition,’ but it seems surprising that its DirectX is screwed. If the PC is a brand new boxed laptop from a shop, maybe you should take it back and complain to them?

BFN
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4

I worked out what happened.

After several restarts, It occurred to me that there was no start-up sound playing when I logged in… so I took a look at my drivers.

Sure enough, mAirList took my drivers down with it when it died and a simple system restore to yesterday sorted that one out. It also fixed the slowness.

5

Hm. And what happens if you start mAirList again? (In case you dare to.) Same effect?

6

mAirList works as normal after the bounce-back.