On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 02:38:24 +0900, you wrote: >get freeride running again by deleting your freeride configuration files. >You do this on windows by deleting the directory: > %USERPROFILE%\freeride yeah, last time it happened that was the solution...unfortunately it mean reconfiguring my colours yet again :/ at this point i think some kind of 'settings.rb' could be written out so it could be loaded on freeride startup overriding anything in the %userprofile%\freeride directory... after i got freeride up and running again i tried irb and got a vc++ runtime error: freeruby-win\bin\rubyw.exe exiting in an unusal way http://home.cogeco.ca/~tsummerfelt1 telnet://ventedspleen.dyndns.org