Poser 11 Stopped Working

Original Post: 24 October 2016
Posted Here: 27 November 2017

On about 24 September 2016, I began to get a green progress bar window saying "Poser Pro executable file has stopped working" and ending with a "Close Program" button every time that I tried to open Poser Pro 11.

Poser Pro 11 Stopped Working

Poser Pro 2014 would still run. Nothing that I found by Googling solved the problem. So I contacted Poser Technical Support and asked for help. John worked on the problem for a couple weeks - try this, try that, before he found that just having Lavasoft's Ad-Aware installed on the computer (even if inactivated) was apparently the cause of the problem. When I uninstalled this program, the problem went away! (Thanks for all your help, John.) If you are having this problem, you might try this solution.

I would also get this same window at random times with both PP11 and PP2014 - sometimes at the start, sometimes in the middle of a project. (This problem started a long time ago.) However, I was always able to restart the program and hope that it didn't crash again too soon (sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't). I learned to do frequent Saves to avoid losing much work. Uninstalling Ad-Aware Web Companion has not eliminated this random crash.

Keep Reading/Keep Writing,

Jack