Help, I'm going Nuts and into depression this close to Christmas

[orchidman33]

Hi guys.

I have had to rebuild my laptop and now the only version of Xlights that I can get to work is 2026-12.

Laptop -Acer Aspire7 running windows 11. -64 byte
Opencl,opengl and vulkan compatability pack installed.

Xlights installs - no visible issues- no errors listed.
At install finish - open read me and open application are both ticked .
read me opens but application doesn't - no errors or popups shown . (just nothing)
I am also unable to open xlights under "run admin".


any help would be greatly apperciated before I bin this laptop.

Murray

 

[AAH]

A restart of the laptop is my first suggestion. After that I'd try uninstalling xlights and installing a new version. If you do a fresh install don't use the open installation tick. Have a look at task manager and see if there's any xlights processes. If all else fails try disabling your antivirus and see if xlights starts then.

 

[orchidman33]

all of that was a no go. Watching Task Manager, xlights flashed up , but that was it.

 

[Croydon Lights]

Year ago I had the same problem and it was because Microsoft Visual was not loaded but these days it should be part of the xlights install but you could check