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Problem opening FreeCommander

Posted: 16.10.2008, 22:28
by mbrennan56
Just yesterday (and nearly every day before that - can't work w/o FreeCommander!) I had no problems w/FreeCommander. But today, when I try to start it, it stalls. That is, it shows up in the Task Manager, but no window is visible. Nor do I receive an error message. I tried upgrading to the most recent version w/the same result.

I'm running WinXP SP3. Between yesterday and today, I did run an Windows auto update

Posted: 16.10.2008, 22:56
by Dreamer
Try to close FreeCommander, then backup and delete FreeCommander.ini file. Or install FreeCommander to new folder.

Posted: 17.10.2008, 01:36
by mbrennan56
Thanks - that enables me to open FreeCommander, but only w/the default .ini file. Any way to recover the settings in my modified .ini file? It still causes the program to hang but I don't know which setting is the problem.

Posted: 17.10.2008, 08:00
by Karol
Try to change the DIR1 and DIR2 in the [Form] section to c:\.

Posted: 17.10.2008, 18:07
by mbrennan56
The DIR1 and DIR2 variables don't seem to be the cause of the hung program. Any other suggestions?

(I guess this is now also a feature request - better error handling of the .ini file w/a popup that told you which section was causing the problem would be nice.)

Posted: 19.10.2008, 00:43
by Dreamer
Perhaps it's just off the screen, try to delete Pos= from ini.

What about plugins? Are you using any external plugins? Try to close FC and rename Plugins folder temporarily to Plugins2.

Posted: 23.10.2008, 01:13
by mbrennan56
Deleting the numeric entries on the Pos= line in the .ini file was it. Now back in business.

Thanks

Posted: 25.10.2008, 01:32
by Dreamer
Good to hear. You're welcome.