540: FC does not display

[ScottR]

Running on XP SP3...

I can launch the freecommander.exe (and see it in task manager), but the main app window is never displayed.

I have been able to run beta builds in the past (last one was 531 I think).

Any conflicts I should check for? Other thoughts?

[ralfso]

Look in your "freecommander.ini" in the section
[FcFormMain_State]
Left=0
Top=0
Width=1917
Height=1047
State=0

Control for proper values.

[ScottR]

Interesting. I just wiped everything from my HD and did a fresh install to see what I'd get.

The default .ini file does not have a [FcFormMain_State] nor are there any parameters for top, left, etc

it has [Form] and [MainPanel] sections and runs 144 lines. (tried adding 'top, left, etc' to [form]...no luck]

It also has a mod date of 12/14/2010 12:43PM.

[Karol]

Can you see FC XE in the process list?

[ScottR]

Yes

[ralfso]

In old freecommander.ini it's located in [Form]-section under:

Pos=0, 0, 1066, 1936, 2

[ScottR]

No, that didn't work either.

Is there a problem that the .ini I installed with R540 is the 'old' freecommander.ini?

[Marek]

Try to make clean installation from FreeCommanderXEprealfa.zip.
- create new folder e.g. c:\tools and unpack the archive to that folder
- you have now the folder c:\tools\FreeCommanderXEprealfa
- check if exist a folder c:\tools\FreeCommanderXEprealfa\settings
- create in c:\tools\FreeCommanderXEprealfa\settings an empty file freecommander.ini
- start now c:\tools\FreeCommanderXEprealfa\FreeCommander.exe

[ScottR]

That worked. Thanks for all the help. I appreciate it. Scott.