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What backup settings are you using? When I turn version backup on this problem starts to happen for me. Works fine when it is off.

Try also to temporary move all uedit32.* files in the directory of uedit32.ini to a different directory, start UE which creates now a new configuration files with standard settings, make your actions and check if it hangs again. If UltraEdit does not hang again, compare the configuration files for ...

Happens to me just about every time I exit. No idea what is causing it. Tried your testcase and it worked fine. Not much of a datapoint other than to say I see the same hang on exit. Running Ultraedit v12.20a+4 on WinXP.