MAME emulators stopped working on all my pc!

[Lucky1]

Hi,

 

Cannot find anything on mame forums.

 

I have 2 computers Win 7 with mameui. Both are doing the same thing when I try to load MameUI.

1- When I double-click on the mame.exe, windows 7 busy icon won't stop spinning.

2- Task manager shows 3 instances of  mame.exe at only 108 k each of memory usage.

3- Impossible to kill any of the 3 tasks in the task manager.

 

 

 Mame RAW seems to work fine.

 

 

I did not change anything to my setup or files.

 

The same problem appeared on both computers the same day, probably due to some windows update!

 

Anyone with the same issue or any idea what is the problem?

 

 

[baddeolv]

check to see if your firewall is blocking the program.  Its possible that after a windows update, that the exe was added to quarantine

[Lucky1]

No, it's not the Firewall. 

 

Tested on multiple mame version and only the mameUI are "not responding" 

 

If it's a win7 update that conflict with this, I could restore my systems...   

 

wow, last thing I needed.

[Lucky1]

Restored windows to 5 days ago did fix the problem. 

 

Does this mean windows update will eventually redownload the same update and conflict again with mame ui?!?

[baddeolv]

more than likely.  Try reading up on what the updates are "fixing", it may give you a clue as to how to avoid it

[Lucky1]

Cabinet pc restored but could not restore my desktop pc 

 

«Definition Update for Windows Defender - KB915597 »

 

I will wait for a new update I guess.

[baddeolv]

you need to add an exception in windows defender.  its blocking it

[Lucky1]

Windows Defender is deactivated on my desktop pc and have always been.  I'll wait the next update.