Hello all- I figured this one out.
The SB3 program does not always do a clean shut-down and is still running in the background after "exit". I use the "process manager" (A free download from Microsoft) and kill the SB3.exe program that is still waiting in the background for some signal it never receives, that prevents a new copy from starting up.
The bug is clearly in the shutdown logic for the SB3 program. It does it to me about 1 time out of 10. I am running 3.6.1 Beta06 if that helps any. I have not noticed any pattern as to what the situation is that causes the control logic to enter the "wait forever" loop.
By nuking the sb3.exe process, everything restarts correctly. I have gotten so accustomed to killing the process when needed that I didn't think of reporting my findings.
Sorry
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