tneiderer
4 discussion posts
A few weeks ago I installed Display Fusion on my Vista Business machine at work. It worked great, installed without a hitch and never had a problem with it. I decided to change my wallpaper recently so I attempted to open Display Fusion. Vista tells me that Display Fusion has stopped working and then I have a choice to close the program which never opened or debug it and thats it. I've tried to uninstall Display Fusion and reinstall to see if that would fix the problem to no avail. Any ideas?
Kevin F.
456 discussion posts
This is a shot in the wind, as I know little about Vista, but try this: Open task manager, see if there is any instance of displayfusion running. If so, kill the process, then try to reinstall it. I THINK that windows is running a ghost image, which doesn't work, and won't let a second instance run, which causes your issue. I have no way of verifying, so good luck.
That is an excellent idea, Pyrobob. If that doesn't correct the issue I would recommend closing DisplayFusion, making sure it is gone using task manager, then uninstalling and reinstalling it. Also, make sure you have v2.0 of the .NET framework installed as well.
Thanks,
Jon
karcadia
2 discussion posts
Okay I dont exactly have the same problem, but the title of the thread is quite appropriate. I installed maybe 3 days ago, loved it. Then a day or two later I tried to change my wallpaper and now it wont do anything. If I tell displayfusion to stretch across both monitors, that feature works fine. If I try to set a different wallpaper per desktop, it just wont change, whatever the wallpapers were before I clicked OK just stay. Now whenever I use Windows Display Settings to change the background, it like splits the image into three parts, see linked image. I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling, checking task manager to make sure it was not running during uninstallation, reinstallation, etc. Any ideas? Thanks for the great program!
http://arcadia.genesismuds.com/car_background.jpg
karcadia
2 discussion posts
Awesome! Works like a charm. Thanks for the quick fix.
-- Impressed
tneiderer
4 discussion posts
It's been a little over a month now and I think I've tried everything. When I try and run Display Fusion, I get the error "Display Fusion has stopped working" still. I can't run the program to save my life. I checked about the v2.0 of the .NET framework installed which it is since its included with Vista. I completely removed Display Fusion from the PC including any registry entries. I've installed the newest version and I get the same issue. If you need to see what my system is I can send you a Dxdiag file. Any help would be appreciated.
The only thing I can suggest to try is re-installing the .net framework. You can re-download it here (which I would recommend):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en
If you have the option to debug it, can you give that a try? It should tell you what the exception is and would help me troubleshoot the problem further.
Thanks,
Jon
Very strange. One thing I would try doing is uninstalling and re-installing the 2.0 .NET framework (not 3.0 or 3.5). I have seen that clear up issues like this. Also, do you Visual Studio installed? If so, would you be able to start a debug session and see what file the "file not found" exception is being thrown for?