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  1. #11
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    Default Re: Xara Designer 13 launches oddly

    My hunch is that your problem is not a Xara or a Windows problem. I think it might be caused by some third party bit of software installed on your machine which is trying to do something at intervals in the background while Xara Designer is starting up.

    That would explain why it doesn't happen every time, why other people can't duplicate the problem and why Handrawn's version of the problem disappeared when he rebuilt his system.

    Find out what programs and services are run when Windows starts up, remove all those that you don't want (there are always some!) and, of the remaining ones that you do want, temporarily stop them one by one and test Designer's startup behaviour until the problem is fixed.

    Phil

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    Default Re: Xara Designer 13 launches oddly

    Makes sense - I certainly stripped out a year or two's accumulated junk
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    Default Re: Xara Designer 13 launches oddly

    Thanks Sledger :-)

    I dragged it back into place and it has opened fine (so far).
    I will investigate the Aero Snapping.
    :-)
    Grenou

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    Default Re: Xara Designer 13 launches oddly

    A few days later....

    If I open Xara first, before anything else, it behaves itself :-)
    That's not a problem, so I'll consider it 'solved' (until something else happens).

    Thanks very much everyone :-)

    Grenou

 

 

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