SyncToy Won't Run

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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.
 
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
 
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
 
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