While using XYplorer today, the program quit responding. I opened Task Manager and killed the process. When I tried to restart it, it would not open. I also tried the 32-bit. It also would not open. I rebooted my computer and it started working normally again.
I am running Win11. XYplorer is ver 28.005 on 64-bit. Version on 32-bit is 27.20.01. 32-bit also works following reboot.Screen scaling is full screen. While having the problem I noticed a new icon on my taskbar. It was a black square with a right arrow followed by an underscore. I was not able to determine what program it was but following reboot the icon disappeared.
Problem starting XYplorer-both 64-bit and 32-bit
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Re: Problem starting XYplorer-both 64-bit and 32-bit
I just had something similar happen to me.
XY was idle (ie not in focus). When I clicked in it's window it was brought to the foreground but it's windows was shaded and "Not Responding" appeared in it's titlebar. I left it for a few minutes but there was no change. I killed the process.
Subsequent attempts to restart XY did not work. I could see an entry for it's process in Task Manager and Process Explorer but there is no actual running windows and nothing in the windows taskbar.
In Process Explorer moving the mouse over it's entry shows that it's path is "Access is denied" and the rest of the usual process info is empty.
Right clicking the entry in Process Explorer gives:
Here is environment tab: I tried running an older version but the same result.
In all other respects the computer was working normally.
Weird
John
Edit: After rebooting everything is ok again.
XY was idle (ie not in focus). When I clicked in it's window it was brought to the foreground but it's windows was shaded and "Not Responding" appeared in it's titlebar. I left it for a few minutes but there was no change. I killed the process.
Subsequent attempts to restart XY did not work. I could see an entry for it's process in Task Manager and Process Explorer but there is no actual running windows and nothing in the windows taskbar.
In Process Explorer moving the mouse over it's entry shows that it's path is "Access is denied" and the rest of the usual process info is empty.
Right clicking the entry in Process Explorer gives:
Here is environment tab: I tried running an older version but the same result.
In all other respects the computer was working normally.
Weird
John
Edit: After rebooting everything is ok again.
Windows 11 Pro x64
XYplorer 28.80.0703 x64 beta
XYplorer 28.80.0703 x64 beta
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Re: Problem starting XYplorer-both 64-bit and 32-bit
Weird!
Could you take a screenshot next time?Thornton.Stewart wrote: ↑17 Oct 2025 18:22 While having the problem I noticed a new icon on my taskbar. It was a black square with a right arrow followed by an underscore. I was not able to determine what program it was but following reboot the icon disappeared.
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