SyncToy Won't Run

[Guest]

SyncToy displays in the task manager but no where else. When I select the
SyncToy exe the display does not show up. It is running as a process. I
believe there is another person in this discussion group with the same
problem.

Also, a windows explorer window opens up with synctoy being displayed when
people log in.

 

[Guest]

Hello Bob,

We have seen one other person mention this behavior but, until this week, we
had never seen it ourselves. This week, I was running SyncToy at home on XP
SP2 Home, and I saw the "task manager only" behavior.

In fact, I was even able to start up multple copies of SyncToy, none of
which produced any UI. Since I know that the first thing we do when we start
SyncToy is check for another copy of SyncToy running, and since I'd never
seen this behavior before, I dug a little deeper.

It turned out that, if I left the system alone long enough, like 10 minutes,
SyncToy eventually produced a UI.

It also turned out that SyncToy wasn't the only software behaving badly on
my system. XP was taking forever to load, and several other applications were
"stalling" or taking a long time to load.

A little more digging pointed to the registry. To make a long story a little
shorter, after I installed a 3rd party registry recovery package (Registry
Mechanic), I discovered 499 broken entries in the registry. After repairing
those entries, my system booted faster, and SyncToy went back to performing
flawlessly.

I hope this helps...

george

 

[Guest]

I rebooted and SyncToy ran fine. It appears that for some reason on occasion
it won't produce an interface. I think this happens after it is run on a
schedule. I do a SyncToy nightly unattended. It doesn't look like it always
works in this mode. Perhaps this is when it stops producing an interface.

Bob L

 

[Guest]

Thanks Bob,

We'll look into the possibility you mention.

george