XYPlorer Fails to Open on Top of Other Windows Occasionally

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Re: XYPlorer Fails to Open on Top of Other Windows Occasionally

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admin wrote: 17 Feb 2021 10:19 I assume this is ticked: Configuration | File Operations | File Operations | Background Processing | Enable background processing ? Try to untick it.
Can't live without that! :( If the problem were more reproducible, I'd oblige. But I'll try this when I next see the problem occur.
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Re: XYPlorer Fails to Open on Top of Other Windows Occasionally

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Same thing for me - I can see the icon in the task bar, but no application window.
I have checked the no network browsing on startup... that seemed to work for a few days... but now the main program window is not showing up again. :shock:

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Can you close and re-open it?

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but now the main program window is not showing up again
Is there a XYplorer.exe process in the task manager?
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I can close it.

It does show up in process explorer..

I am using the portable version
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When you re-open it everything looks normal again?

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It is hit and miss... sometimes it will reopen and other times it will not.
I have not rebooted recently either. Though rebooting the PC doesn't seem to make much difference.
After a reboot, it can have the same issue where it will not start.

I have not had any problems today (so far).

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Hm. Currently I'm clueless about this. :|

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Re: XYPlorer Fails to Open on Top of Other Windows Occasionally

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This seems to be corrected in 21.60.01

No issues since update

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Re: XYPlorer Fails to Open on Top of Other Windows Occasionally

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As an update, this issue of XYplorer not launching on top of other windows continues to plague me. It'll work most of the time, and then every once in a while it just won't launch on top of other windows. Since I have 4 monitors, I have to play a frustrating version of where in the world is XYplorer. This happens on both of my computers.

I did try the background processing setting even though I don't think that was meant for my particular issue.

Any other ideas? I really don't want to leave XYplorer. Everything else is perfect. But I don't know how else to fix this. Thanks for any help!

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What is your setting here?
Configuration | General | Startup & Exit | Startup window state

Try to set it to "Normal" if it is set to "Last state". (I just hope it's not set to "Minimized".)

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Re: XYPlorer Fails to Open on Top of Other Windows Occasionally

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It was set to "last state." I switched to normal.

I often minimize, then later clean up windows with right-clicking on the taskbar to close rather than un-minimizing it then closing. By launching the app again after closing a minimized XYPlorer window, I can easily reproduce my issue when "last state" is set. Switching to "normal" works the way I'd like. Great!

Can't believe I didn't see this setting after all these years or think it might have been triggered by being in a minimized state. It's in a logical place in the settings so not sure how I missed it.

Thank you for the assist!

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Well, it took also me almost one year to find the solution. :)

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Just wanted to report back a few weeks later to confirm that the setting "Startup window state:" to Normal fixed the issue 100%. I've not had any problems since making this change.

Thanks again for the fix, and for making a great product.

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:tup: :cup:

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