Intermittent Tor startup
Tor 3.6.5 was downloaded and installed without issue on a Win 7, 32 bit system. First startup of Tor was OK, with the Tor connection status popup opening and closing, followed by opening of the Firefox browser. Shutdown was OK and both Tor and Firefox were closed out as confirmed by checking in Windows process explorer. Upon attemting a restart of Tor, the connection status window opened and closed as before, but the Firefox window would not open after 5 minutes. Windows process explorer showed Firefox and Tor to be running. No error messages were received. Tor was then deleted and reinstalled and the exact same effects as described above occurred. A third attempt was made trying to run Tor "as an administrator" but the exact same effects occurred.
Firefox v. 32.0.2 is also resident on the system but was not running. This version was removed and Tor was deleted; and then Tor was reinstalled. This time Tor could be opened and closed without difficulty multiple times by "running as administrator". Tor was then closed and Firefox v.32.0.2 was reinstalled. The exact effect occurred as originally described above. Tor versions prior to 3.6.3 did not exhibit this issue on my system.
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Username: astabula