when they are switched off. What I was explaining is that the slider showing they are off does not mean they are (on my version) so it can take a while to actually switch them off.. clearly if they are off, no adverts should be popping up... but I was still seeing them after seitching them off several times.. each time when I went back to the option they were still on. Only be switching them off, restarting the program and checking the option was still off could I be sure they actually were off.
So, my set up with 2 external monitors has worked without a glitch for 4 hours now... so i stopped it, switched adverts off, made sure they were off. NOTHING ELSE CHANGED. I then loaded the program, played one track and left it alon without touching anything and within 3 minutes of the track ending it had frozen so that I could not select anything. Identical problem on both Windows 10 PCs although the hardware/interfaces and specifications of the 2 are very different.