Two things. No. 1 is the endless flooding of pop ups about updating the renewal service, and No. 2 is that the whole application dies when I try to use the bitmap editor, which is something I really need and all the time.

Is this my punishment for not renewing the update service?

Is this related?

This is screwing up my work flow big time. For the moment, I still have an old computer with a stable much older version of Xara installed. I am literally dreading the time when I will have to try and rely on the current thing which keeps giving me these "surprises," like completely dying/becoming entirely unresponsive/with no error messages/just frozen when I try to add a bit more contrast to a bitmap.