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Thanks for the update

I’m really at a loss with this, the only things that have changed is the text control supplied by a third party. I think I’m going to have to look at this. What is worse is that it works on my home domain, my school domain and we have no issues on 1909 or 2004 even on 21H1 released last week. We don’t have any issues here. I need to start collecting information while people roll back to a working version like 4530, but at least from this build number I can get a clear indication what might have changed. With those that have issues, can I ask that you supply me with your build of windows, all subsequent updates installed, your EWP config file, unless you tested it with the default config and it still failed, would love to know the result of this also. Please email over to [email protected] As you know I will work my backside off to get to the bottom of this and come back with a working version for all. Thanks for your continued support and help with this!! Much appreciated [emoji1303][emoji846]

I think Microsoft are screwing EWP over here somehow, if anybody can, please download version 4.7.0.0 below and see if it launches https://drive.google.com/file/d/17mJMcWxavNOEBynpSr3LjCMyI6r31_Td/view?usp=sharing

No worries, totally understand.

I do have a version 4.7 if you want to try it, just email me via [email protected] so I can send it to you.

I do have a version 4.7 if you want to try it, just email me via [email protected] so I can send it to you.

This does seem like a windows issue, if EWP work on a PC, then EWP is working and the file permissions/group policies for the user account are ok. Can’t possibly be an EWP issue but would never say that 100%. Normally I would say a windows update has caused it, but intermittency like this is now to me and our school it is working ok across 15 laptops and many desktops. EWP is built universally and not specifically for our network environment, I have always wrote it on my own personally laptop and test domain on a VM. Not sure what else to say…

Clr.dll might be corruption of the sort of the framework, re-install windows or upgrade windows should fix this.

What is interesting to know, Did you I upgrade or install fresh new? Strange that an upgrade would know out something you would of had to of had installed since version 3 of EWP

Yes you do need to do this but I assumed this was already done and they upgraded the instance of EWP, not running it on fresh new windows Builds. :-)

Hi, From looking, certainly at the first image you attached, it is missing a few of the DLLs that come with EWP. I have checked the version online and downloaded it extract it and launch it with now issues and no-one else has reported it either. So just make sure that where ever EWP is located that the "Assemblies" sits along side it. The second image supplied will be a knock-on from the first image.

I bet for us none of the teachers have used it for over a year now!

We use Sophos and it’s not been flagged, but depends on which variant of tiggre it is but most a low and none destructive. https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/threat-encyclopedia/malware/trojan.win32.tiggre.usxvpk619

Depends on which file is getting flagged, an EXE or JavaScript file etc… We still use it but no issues our end.

I was going to quote that too thanks :-) [emoji1303]

You are quite correct EWP doesn’t offer SPAG and as far as I’m aware wasn’t allow under any circumstance, but I could be wrong as I’m not an exam officiating or exam board. If SPAG were to be allowed then, yes, you could use word but you would be expected to batten down the hatches so to speak and disable things that aren’t relevant like thesauruses etc.. easier said than done from past experience, another reason why I wrote EWP. Hope this helps, to a degree [emoji1303]

Version 4.6.5.0 has been released and is an extension of the previous release. Below is the full rundown of fixes including the few for version 4.6.0.0 ADDED: AutoSaveInterval and AutoBackupInterval timers have now been given a minimum and maximum accepted value for each. This is to help stop instability of EWP when a ridiculous value is specified like 1 second!! The new minimum value is 30 seconds to a maximum of 600 seconds (10 mins). These are also reflected in the ConfigEditorGUI. If you bypass these values by editing the config manually, there is a check in place within EWP that will use the default of 60 seconds if you are under the minimum or over the maximum values. • ADDED: Paragraph Markers (Pilcrow) has now been added on the ‘insert’ ribbon bar. You can also disable the button as per other buttons via the ConfigEditorGUI. • FIXED: Command line printing failed because any printer name specified, was not passed to the print function. This affected all command line operations that required the print function. • CHANGED: The EWP log file will now be stored in the Windows TEMP folder by default because a lot of schools were deleting user profiles at logoff so therefore had no log file to debug any issues with. But don’t worry, if you prefer to log to the user profile temp folder, just set the windows temp folder permission to read-only for the logged-in user/group and EWP with fallback to the user profile temp folder. • FIXED: When ‘ForceSave’ option is set, and you have saved your file to continue, if you then click the SaveAs button, ‘ForceSave’ would kick in and you cannot cancel it until you save the file. There is no need to continue to apply the ‘ForceSave’ option once the file has been saved and is being saved to a file. • ADDED: New config option ‘SkipDeleteOldVersionsCheck’ which will not delete any older ExamText backup files upon launch. There may be instances where you wish to keep them for an indefinite period just in case you need to refer back to them. As always set the option to 1 to skip otherwise 0 will check and delete if older than 48 hours. • FIXED: The custom message window used in EWP had the default window title of ‘Form1’ now change to ‘ExamWritePad - Notification/Message’ to match the other forms used in EWP. This was a little bugbear of mine that needed doing for consistency. Other forms used have been checked and renamed also. • FIXED: Long standing issue where the AutoBackup worker and PowerStatus worker would try to get a ‘busy’ status before being initialised. The function would still run but threw an exception that needed attention.

you are most welcome!

Hi All, Our school is looking into the chromebook over BYOD debate with the intention of our incumbent year 7s being the first to all get the same/similar device. Does anyone have or know someone that has done a direct comparison with chromebooks and apple devices or have some case study material? Pro's/Con's Chromebooks etc.. Anything you can supply would be most helpful links, documents via PM etc... Thanks Andy

New version released ADDED: AutoSaveInterval and AutoBackupInterval timers have now been given a minimum and maximum accepted value for each. This is to help stop instability of EWP when a ridiculous value is specified like 1 second!! The new minimum value is 30 seconds to a maximum of 600 seconds (10 mins). These are also reflected in the ConfigEditorGUI. If you bypass these values by editing the config manually, there is a check in place within EWP that will use the default of 60 seconds if you are under the minimum or over the maximum values. ADDED: Paragraph Markers (Pilcrow) has now been added on the ‘insert’ ribbon bar. You can also disable the button as per other buttons via the ConfigEditorGUI. FIXED: Command line printing failed because any printer name specified, was not passed to the print function. This affected all command line operations that required the print function. Download from all the usual places, examwritepad.com, links in edugeek signature, updater in the software.

New build of EWP tonight for your good self! Will post it on this forum and website and all the usual places.

Ok, I have tracked down the batch printing issue to the fact I forgot to pass the printer name to the paper size function. I will patch up and release a new build tonight.

Don’t worry that is my job to find out the root cause. I’m pretty sure it is a bug as I did have to change the paper size detection to a more generic approach as each printer never listed A4 as “A4”. Leave it with me and I will be back later with an update.

Thanks for the kinds words and taking the time to use EWP. I will take a look at the batch printing issues you are having, it in the meantime could you try the Microsoft print to pdf as the printer if you have it available.

Ok, the only thing that strikes me as way too low is the auto save interval, where 1000 is the fact you are asking EWP to save every second so no wonder it crashes, I would recommend 60000 (1 minute) as the minimum.