If you’re running Gaim under Windows and it hangs, remember to check to see if the TCL/Tk DLL might be the offender: I spent fifteen frustrated minutes uninstalling or disabling everything from codecs to antivirus software before I remembered that tcl.dll (under %GAIMDIR%\plugins\, where %GAIMDIR% is by default “C:\Program Files\Gaim”) causes Gaim to hang on my machines consistently for some reason. Renaming it tcl.dll.NO made Gaim skip it.

If you start Gaim and the process is running without complaint and without crashing, but never appears, it has likely hung on the TCL DLL; you can check this by opening a command prompt (Start -> Run… -> “cmd” [Enter]) and running gaim.exe with the –debug option on.

If you’re running Gaim under Windows and it hangs, remember to check to see if the TCL/Tk DLL might be the offender: I spent fifteen frustrated minutes uninstalling or disabling everything from codecs to antivirus software before I remembered that tcl.dll (under %GAIMDIR%\plugins\, where %GAIMDIR% is by default “C:\Program Files\Gaim”) causes Gaim to hang on my machines consistently for some reason. Renaming it tcl.dll.NO made Gaim skip it.

If you start Gaim and the process is running without complaint and without crashing, but never appears, it has likely hung on the TCL DLL; you can check this by opening a command prompt (Start -> Run… -> “cmd” [Enter]) and running gaim.exe with the –debug option on.