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RichBopp
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6 years ago
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"The background TaskHost.exe process crashed."

Just upgraded to 12.6 yesterday.  Running a keyword script.  Getting a new error - "The background TaskHost.exe process crashed."      Does anyone know what this means?  How to make sure never ha...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    6 years ago

    Hrm, that is strange.  The thing is, unless you specify not to in the project, TestComplete doesn't ignore processes in the Windows environment.  So, TaskHost may have been trying to do something that, with TestComplete "looking" at it, caused a failure.

     

    If you go to Tools | Current Project Properties | Open Applications | Process Filter, you can specify TestComplete ignore certain system processes.  Give this a try and see if it helps.