decompiling data for editing (won't finish)

I have the entire McAfee suite on my XP machine, but I've made certain that it's been configured to notify me when it blocks programs (buffer overflow, firewall access, etc.)  So far there hasn't been a conflict with Aurora.  Not so with Spectrum, however, as I often had to disable McAfee in order to get any sequencing done.

Not sure about how the newer Norton/Symantec products do their thing.  Might be worth disabling, if you can, to see if this makes a difference.  Or at least delving into the settings to make sure that Aurora is being allowed to operate unencombered.

BTW--I have 7-Zip installed, as it is the least intrusive compression shareware I've found.  Does zip, rar, etc.  Winrar was just too clunky.

Well, I've got McAfee for my virus scanner.  No firewall on my system (at least I think so). I've had none to all of the following programs running at the same time Aurora is going:  Firefox, Outlook Express, Picasa 3, and the HW Utility (not connected, just there).   Usually it's just Aurora and Firefox going. 

With my decompiling forever issue, it turned out that I couldn't program anything at all until I rebooted.  As in I couldn't open a sequence, start a new one, import, play, save, program a command, etc.  Aurora pretended to let me do all that, but it never succeeded. 

And tonight while doing my firefly V2 test, I had a really interesting bug show up.  I programmed a brand new firefly test sequence, and when I sent commands out, it played the commands from my firefly V1 sequence (with the music from the new sequence).  I hadn't opened or used my firefly V1 sequence since last nights testing.  However, the last thing the firefly controllers did was that sequence.  After closing Aurora and reopening the program, it did play my new sequence.  Weird. 

Have WinZip 12.0 Eval installed in my Vista and never had the problem.  Also have WinZip 10 installed on the XP, sp3 box that also never had the problem.  I don't have the System Tray  piece of zip running in either case.

I don't know what Aurora is actually doing when it is decompiling. That may be more than the programmers are willing to tell us.

Let's assume it is "unzipping" or "decompressing" the file. If that's the case, then we need to know which version of Zip or PKZip or WinZip or WinRAR or whatever that Aurora expects to use or if it relies soley on Window's licensed version.

I'll start by saying that I have never had it stick on "decompiling." Not on XP SP3 or in Vista.

I don't have WinRAR installed any more on either computer, so I'll count that out. If you have it, you might try uninstalling it.

On my Vista computer, I don't have any Zip program other than what Microsoft built into Explorer.  On my XP computer, I thought I had WinZip installed but I checked and it appears I took off both WinZip and WinRAR at the same time.

At this point - I'd say uninstall any non-Microsoft Zip utility you might have. It could be interfering. That's my best guess in the absence of more info.

I can not get the decompiling to get stuck on que. I've tried every memory thing that I can think of. The only thing that I can 99% guarantee will lock it up is being is Stady By for 12 hours.