Thanks Wendell. The fast user switching brings up a crazy story about AC in its infancy. It's actually pretty funny now, but Jon can probably recall my calling him three or four times per week.
This was at the other office with client/server but workgroup not domain. We had just purchased version 1. For some reason that he and I will never figure out, AC would crash about five to six times per day. Now this isn't your "AC crashing on one computer and just clicking on the icon again crashing, this was your AC crashed on every computer simultaneously, and the only way to fix the problem was to go to the server and run Amazing Utilities to fix the database. But, to do this, EVERY Amazing Charts had to be closed. Sounds easy enough. Just go around to every computer and close them. But some were already closed from the crash BUT were still running in the background. So you had to use Task Manager to see if it were running and close it that way. Then two computers had fast user switching. So you had to check one the one that was active, then switch and close the other one which may not appear to be open all before you could run the utility. Can you kind of see the picture? It was like a fire drill each time with MAs and secretaries and billers all running around to the computers they were responsible for.
Even funnier was the fact that my partner would never pick up on the fact that it had crashed and would continue to try to use AC even though it was frozen. And, then he was too impatient to wait for the fiasco to end and would just grab a sheet of paper from the printer and start doing a written note.
Since I knew very little about networking then, I bought a pro version of Microsoft Access and installed it on the computer. Of course, that shouldn't matter, but for some reason there was never a crash after that.
