Why is Winplot (Wingeom, etc) crashing (doing crazy things) when I open a 2D graphing window?
There may well be a bug in the program (please tell me), but the cause is usually a corrupted initialization file. Most windows create these ini files when they close, saving user preferences such as background color, window size and placement, font selections, and so on. If the program crashes for any reason, the ini file can be left holding bad information, which is retrieved by the program the next time that you open that window. Havoc results. The obvious remedy is to find the offending file and delete it from the Windows directory. It is actually easier to open the troublesome window after checking the main menu item Using defaults. This tells the program to ignore the ini file if there is one. As soon as the window has been safely closed, its ini file is restored to health.
