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Just recently, I got my hands on a new Dell Latitude D820 laptop and it took me a few days to get everything migrated from my old laptop. Everything was running fine, including Joost, until that is, I joined my machine to our Active Directory domain at work. Every time I attempted to start Joost, tvprunner.exe would crash with the error: “The exception Breakpoint. A breakpoint has been reached.”

I tried deleting Application Data\Joost and Local Settings\Application Data\Joost but to no avail. I then tried running Joost as another domain user but the same error appeared. What I then tried was logging in as a local user, created during the initial XP install and low and behold, Joost ran just fine. I now just use “Run as…” and use a local account to launch Joost when logged in as a domain user.

This problem seems to be widespread on certain Dell machines, notably on Latitude D820s, three of which I tried myself and others which have also been reported on the Joost forum. However it runs fine as a domain user on both my Dell Precision desktop in work and a Dell XPS laptop I tested on. I haven’t had a chance to try Joost on a non-Dell build of XP on a Latitude yet to figure out if it’s something with the Dell supplied install of XP. Both the Precision desktop and XPS laptop were running standard builds.

I just received a Joost invite from Pallab and I may aswell jump on the bandwagon and give away some Joost invites just like everyone else.

If anyone would like a free Joost invite, simply leave a comment here and I’ll fire one off to you! Don’t leave your email in the post itself, just simply enter the correct address in the email field and I’ll get one through to you.

I promise your email address will be safe and I will delete it as soon as the invite is sent, so you don’t have to worry about any spam!

Update: I’ve given out over 80 invites, keep those requests coming! Everyone who’s commented as of 21:30 IST should have received theirs by now, if not, use the contact form to let me know!

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