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AndersMalmgren
FreePIE not launching
I used to be able to run FreePIE but after i deleted it and 2 months later i downloaded it again, now its not running. I check task manager and it says its running FreePIE.exe*32 but FreePIE itself is not showing up anywhere. I reinstalled it a couple of times and restarted my computer like 6 times and it still does not launch.
Have you checked it's not in tray mode? Check the system tray for a freepie icon
You have a FreePIE.log? Its either in the program foldar if you have freepie in portable mode or in %appdata%
Cant find the log file, in the %appdata% there is only the settings and the layout file.
you can also try to delete the files under %appdata% and see if it resolves it. You will loose your settings though. Start with layout then settings
Then I'm out of ideas, you have possibility to run the program from visual studio?
I dont get why it does not show up. Its in the process in the background but not showing up anywhere.
Im trying all kind of things and i cant get it to open. I installed it on my laptop and it runs fine but i cant run it on my main desktop and i just was it to work!
Maybe a older version https://github.com/AndersMalmgren/FreePIE/releases
I still wonder if it could be the new tray feature that's faulty
I tried importing the files of FreePIE from my laptop and it did not work. I installed the older version but it still runs in the process, i think there must be something stopping it from opening.
You have any custom plugins in the plugins folder? If they fail to load it should log but maybe something is wrong there
I'm out of ideas sadly. If you run in portabel mode you get the same result?
FIRST: Try this: delete FreePIE folder in %appdata%
Reason: after crash some files might be damaged (settings)
Similar issue here: https://github.com/AndersMalmgren/FreePIE/issues/214
IF THAT WON'T HELP: If this would happen on brand new installation and you never ever had FreePIE installed, then this would be a generic software error happening, which would typically mean you don't have VC Redist installed. In that case, I would recommend installing it from here: https://archive.org/details/microsoftvisualcredistributable_202004 as recently official Microsoft website deleted several DLL files from their download site and introduced bugs in VC Redist installer 2015-2022 (labeled as Windows XP removal, but it breaks even my Visual Studio 2019 installation on Windows 10). I already reported this on official Microsoft Developer's support forum.
Hi thank you all for your help. I have tried installing all VC Redist but still nothing. I have deleted FreePie in Appdata but still nothing. When I open FreePie, there is nothing happened, no minitray icon, no pop-up, just nothing. But it does appear in Task Manager. I have tried older version too: 1.10, 1.9, 1.8 but there is still nothing for me.