Windows 7 loop crash

[runarbu]

A user has contacted me about a bug.

Apparently he is experiencing this on two computers. One is running Windows 7 Pro, the other is running Windows 7 Enterprise. Both are public and are re-images to default at reboot.

He is booting from a 8gb thumb drive with a 2gb fat32 partition and the rest is a boot-able ext4 file system (with a half gb swap space).

He has admin rights.

Every time he launches Portable-VirtualBox it gets into a horrible loop where it launches, crashes, then relaunches itself. The only way he can "kill" it is by either removing the drive or running a "taskkill /IM "Portable-VirtualBox.exe" /F" (can't use task manager, because he can't lockdown the PID given that it keeps changing)

He have deleted the entire folder and isolated the only files loaded while in this crash loop are: Portable-VirtualBox.exe app32/msvcp71.dll app32/msvcr71.dll app32/VBoxDDU.dll app32/VBoxRT.dll app32/VBoxSVC.exe

Any ideas?

Me first thought is that since this is the first time we am hearing about this issue it must be something with the way this PC's is configured.

[garysieling]

Does the update code run during install only or when you start the application as well? There are a couple spots that look like they could turn into a loop if an error occurs - one possibility is he's behind an aggressive firewall (like WatchGuard).

[runarbu]

The crash happens not on install (because it was install it on to the thumbdrive) but when runned (only on the public computer).

Apparently his exam was last week, so the next time he will have access to the test machine will be in the fall =/

[SpudmanWP]

Having the same issue the first time I launch the program. Tried launching it from a HD and USB

[Ruffio]

@runarbu and @SpudmanWP is this still an issue?