Cannot Close Excel - Reolved, Unrelated

[therube]

Cannot Close Excel since installing Beta 3


Salamander 3.0 beta 3 x86 (& now seemingly Salamander 2.54 too)
Excel 2002
Win7 x64, Dell Laptop


Doulble-click an .XLS from within Salamander.
Excel opens, loading the wanted spreadsheet.

Click Excel's close button 'X'.

Nothing happens.

Close the file in Excel, Ctrl+W, works.
Click Excel's close button 'X'.
Nothing happens.

Close Salamander.
Click Excel's close button 'X'.
Nothing happens.

Kill Excel.

Excel closes & restarts (automatically).

Kill Excel.
Excel exits from memory.

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Open Windows Explorer.

Doulble-click an .XLS from within Explorer.
Excel opens, loading the wanted spreadsheet.

Click Excel's close button 'X'.

Excel closes as expected.

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salamand.exe
-> salmon.exe (as a child)
-> excel.exe (as a child)

At the first attempt to kill Excel, it is removed as a child to salamand.exe, then restarts with no parent, though still cannot be closed normally.

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This is my fathers laptop.
He asked me about Beta 3 today & I said go ahead & install it.
Short time thereafter he noticed the issue.

Have to assume that all was well & working as expected prior to installing Beta 3 & that the issue is related to Beta 3?

[therube]

He also screwed around with MS .NET crap.
The programming end of it, different from the runtime (crap) that we all likely now have installed.

I'm running a System Restore & I'll see what comes of that...

[therube]

False alarm.

Running System Restore, then reinstalling Salamander Beta, & Excel is back to working properly.

So it looks to have been related to that .NET crap he installed.