Problem opening FreeCommander

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mbrennan56 · #1 Post by **mbrennan56** » 16.10.2008, 22:28

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

#2 Post by **Dreamer** » 16.10.2008, 22:56

Try to close FreeCommander, then backup and delete FreeCommander.ini file. Or install FreeCommander to new folder.

mbrennan56 · #3 Post by **mbrennan56** » 17.10.2008, 01:36

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.

Karol · #4 Post by **Karol** » 17.10.2008, 08:00

Try to change the DIR1 and DIR2 in the [Form] section to c:\.

mbrennan56 · #5 Post by **mbrennan56** » 17.10.2008, 18:07

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.)

#6 Post by **Dreamer** » 19.10.2008, 00:43

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.

mbrennan56 · #7 Post by **mbrennan56** » 23.10.2008, 01:13

Deleting the numeric entries on the Pos= line in the .ini file was it. Now back in business.

Thanks

#8 Post by **Dreamer** » 25.10.2008, 01:32

Good to hear. You're welcome.

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