MT4 advice please

I have loaded an indicator on to a chart which slows down MT4 and my machine so much that the program will not run. When loaded it freezes and I have waited over an hour to close the particular chart with no luck. I have effectively lost all my settings as I can now only run MT4 in administrator mode with no custom templates or indicators loaded. (Windows 7)

Is there something I could try other than removing and reinstalling the software?

Thank you in advance...

I had this problem and just deleted the indicator from the experts/indicators folder. MT4 couldn't load it up and therefore crash.

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Hmm. Thanks Willh, for the reply. I have tried deleting the indicator and there is no improvement. There is a 1 minute chart open and I think this is what is preventing MT4 to load properly. Works fine in administrator mode, though but of cours eI have lost all my templates.

Where to go from here? Anyone?

I suppose I should spend several hours learning Windows 7 dll files or something...

Is your MT4 installed in program files ?

Charts data is located under "profiles" directory. Search for files with extension .chr and delete them all.

Reboot your machine and as someone else suggested, delete the indicator.

Thank you all very much for your replies. Oddly, deleting the indicators and rebooting didn't work.

AseasRoa, your advice worked but the machine still took its time to accept the challenge of operating normally. I have no idea why. Now it's working fine.

Thanks again, all repliers, and have a good weekend. Good trading.

Maybe the indi is not well coded and stucks in a loop when loaded

Yes, I think you are right. It slows down the machine on any time frame but on the M1 tf the machine stalls.