[DougRobertson]

Picasa stops working when I put a memory stick in a USB port. The icon on the taskbar reads:

"not responding". As far as I know, Picasa shouldn't know anything about the memory stick.

As soon as I remove the memory stick, the program works fine. Any idea how to fix this?

--Doug Robertson

[Grr8008]

I don't know how to fix it but does it hangup when you start it up after you plug in the flash drive?

[DougRobertson]

Good question--I hadn't tried starting Picasa with a memory stick in the USB slot.

When I do that, Picasa doesn't come up--no screen window at all. But Windows

Task Manager says that it is using 25% of CPU cycles. Since I have a quad-core

system, that seems to mean that it has taken over one of the quad-cores completely.

When I remove the memory stick, the program goes on to operate normally, and the

number of CPU cycles used by Picasa drops to near zero (since I'm not doing

anything with it right now).

[LincolnSpector]

Another question:

Have you tried more than one flash drive?

Lincoln

[DougRobertson]

Yes, I have an antique 256 MB flash drive, and a newer 16 GB drive, and they both

have the same effect on Picasa. No other programs appear to be affected, at least

not that I've noticed.

[Grr8008]

Someone at the Picasa forum seemed to have this problem...

http://www.google.co...9a2b6aa7b&hl=en