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Brooke Burdge

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Nov 24, 2009, 9:47:12 PM11/24/09
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Every time I click to open Opera.exe, a flickering image of the Start-up
options dialogue box appears, then vanishes almost immediately. No process
appears in the Task Manager.

I have already completely removed the program and re-installed twice. No
change.

I'm running Windows XP.

Has anyone else run into this problem or have any idea how to get Opera up
and running again?


Arioch

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Nov 25, 2009, 2:29:44 PM11/25/09
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В письме от Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:47:12 +0300, Brooke Burdge
<cie...@hotmail.com> сообщал:


> a flickering image of the Start-up options dialogue box appears

Weird. AFAIR by default this dialog is off. And Opera opens into just web
pages. If user likes start-up option, he has to tweak settings.
Ergo, i doubt you do deinstall Opera completely. I think you leave behind
the Opera settings somewhere, and as you rreinstall that is not clean
compelte reinstall but reuse of those settings of old. Perhaps something
strange in them and if to find and remove them...

> I have already completely removed the program and re-installed twice. No
> change.

re-installing windows ?

Try to look Windows Events Log, that is somewhere in Computer MAnagement
or in Administration - maybe there's something errors about Opera.

Also try if you have some antivirus software, check its logs, may it be
the reason.

Process Monitor sometimes might give some clue about what was last Opera
action before death, however that is just research tool.

Aaron W. Hsu

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Nov 25, 2009, 10:11:49 PM11/25/09
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"Brooke Burdge" <cie...@hotmail.com> writes:

>Has anyone else run into this problem or have any idea how to get Opera up
>and running again?

You might try running Opera from the command line and see if there are
any errors printed out. I do not know if the EXE Windows version does
this or not, but that's the first step with a Linux installation.

Aaron W. Hsu

Swifty

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Nov 26, 2009, 6:02:03 AM11/26/09
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Arioch wrote:
>> a flickering image of the Start-up options dialogue box appears
>
> Weird. AFAIR by default this dialog is off. And Opera opens into just
> web pages. If user likes start-up option, he has to tweak settings.

You also get the startup options if the previous load of Opera did not
close cleanly (as when you get a BSOD, or are forced to power off your
system).

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Jernej Simončič

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Nov 26, 2009, 11:09:57 AM11/26/09
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on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:11:49 -0600, Aaron W. Hsu wrote:

> I do not know if the EXE Windows version does
> this or not

It doesn't - Windows applications will never write to console, unless
they're marked as a console application in the exe itself, but in that case
they'll open their own console when they weren't started from one.

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Arioch

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Nov 27, 2009, 6:26:49 PM11/27/09
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В письме от Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:09:57 +0300, Jernej Simončič
<jer...@deepthought.ena.invalid> сообщал:

> It doesn't - Windows applications will never write to console, unless
> they're marked as a console application in the exe itself, but in that
> case
> they'll open their own console when they weren't started from one.

for windows there are kernel debug output, but hardly any developers use it

see DebugView tool from sysinternals.com

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