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[tbone66]

Hey everybody.  I seem to be the only having problems with MC going into mini-me mode.  The program freezes every time.

Decided to set the startup option for MC to mini-me mode to see if that might help.  Well, the program launches - but I can't see it.  The process is running, but the app is not visible.

Welllll, without the program visible, I can't get to the Options settings to change startup back to mega-me.  I'm looking at various .ini files, but haven't come across the setting I need to revert to starting in the mega-me mode.  Reinstallation did not overwrite that setting either.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.  Guess I'm stuck running mega-me mode until I can determine just why the heck moving from build .291 to .305 caused mini-me to become no-me.

T

[LisaRCT]

I once had a 'bad' skin which caused MC to become 'invisible' and left me unable to get to my settings . . . .  in my case I just went to the skins page on the web and downloaded another skin.  Since the new skin install causes MC to change to that new skin I was once again able to see MC so as to modify the skin settings.
Perhaps that will get you access to your start options.

[KingSparta]

The process is running, but the app is not visible.

it may just be off screen

enlarging the screen size may allow it to be found easly

[tbone66]

Tried installing new mini-me skins from the skin manager as well as a straight dl without the program running.  No change in either case.

Did discover that MC will enter mini-me mode under other profiles on this machine!  Obviously, there is a problem with a registry setting, user setting, or process that is running under my profile.

I will save desktop items and some other things from this profile, delete it, then re-create it and hope that solves the issue.  It is obviously not with the MC exe.

My apologies for not investigating this more deeply than I should (could) have before assuming there was a problem in later builds.  Of course, I didn't notice a problem until I updated from .291 so that's what I ran with.  I have not installed anything or changed any settings that I am aware of although any number of under the hood processes might have done so.

Thanks to all who provided feedback.  MC rocks and so do (most of  ) the people in this community.

T

[LisaRCT]

Perhaps I should have been more clear in that I was referring ot downloading a Mega-Me skin to make the program visible again.

Glad you got a handle on it anyway.