audacity & vista=not good

[innerspace]

i've audacity installed in my laptop running on the windows vista home os. Everytime i click on the stop button after recording, audacity crashes. it also crashes when i'm recording for long. What is the remedy? I've enabled all the devices available in the sound card. Vista sucks!

[axmaster]

Same here! Audacity on my good old XP works just fine. I stopped trying to come up with a solution. As long as my XP laptop keeps working I'm happy!

Regards,

Peter

[TD5_23]

Found this online. Hopefully it helps,

"Audacity may install on Vista in compatibility mode for Windows 95, and this may cause problems or error messages, or cause Audacity to crash when launching. If so, try disabling compatibility mode, and if any problems persist, run Audacity in compatibility mode for Windows XP. To change compatibility modes, right-click over audacity.exe in Windows Explorer, then click Properties. "

[RWPeck]

I had the similar problems running Audacity on Vista (Windows 7 too) so I did a google search looking for answers and found your conversation and a few others. One thread directed me to the new Audacity 1.3.7 beta (Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder), so I downloaded and installed it last night and created 25 Audacity projects ranging form 10 sec to 2 hr in length - not one of them failed or had any anomalies. Over several years, Audacity 1.2.6 never let me down once on my Windows XP machine, but something in Windows Vista made Audacity unstable and unusable. Thankfully, the Audacity folks appear to have fixed the problem in version 1.3.7

[whomper]

anything plus vista is no good