Updated then slowed to a crawl

[rsrsrs]

HI,
strange. usually its the other way. other progs make me depressed.
can you share the xar file?

[handrawn]

if you start a new file totally from scratch does this still happen ? - if not then your original file has probably got corrupted, you may be able to copy stuff across from the old to a new file but no guarantee...

if it still happens then maybe the update corrupted the program - you are probably correct in saying the slow speed of graphic rendering lets you see stages you don't usually; the roaring of the fans could be high CPU or Graphic card usage, but this would show in the task manager I would have thought...

since every other program is ok not sure what else it could be, although it is possible that you have a hardware fault on your drive at the position where the xara program is written, so it is worth checking the disk for faults just in case

[Acorn]

Following any update issues, you should perform a cold power off and on again and run the XDA as Administrator.

Acorn

[handrawn]

good practice generally to do that, agreed