XYPlorer Fails to Open on Top of Other Windows Occasionally

[Jerry]

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.

[chierchio]

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.

[admin]

Can you close and re-open it?

[highend]

but now the main program window is not showing up again

Is there a XYplorer.exe process in the task manager?

[chierchio]

I can close it.

It does show up in process explorer..

I am using the portable version

[admin]

When you re-open it everything looks normal again?

[chierchio]

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).

[admin]

Hm. Currently I'm clueless about this.

[chierchio]

This seems to be corrected in 21.60.01

No issues since update

[houkdr1]

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!

[admin]

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".)

[houkdr1]

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!

[admin]

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

[houkdr1]

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.

[admin]