Bug report: Invisible Audacity?

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Running the 2.0.0 Unicode version that I dl’d last week, to a fully patched Vista system.

Sometimes, I’ll launch Audacity (by double-clicking the icon) and it looks like nothing happens. But the Task manager shows audacity.exe is running, and even if I kill that, Audacity won’t launch a visible session again.

Invisible app? Did I miss this in prior reports or am I just lucky?

Nothing else was running at the time, except MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) in the background.

So far my cure is to reboot the computer cold.

2

Do you have any “plug-ins” installed? This kind of behaviour can be caused by Audacity trying to load and verify a large list of plug-ins (or a list that includes ones that are not compatible with Audacity). How long have you waited for Audacity to appear?

3

No plugins. Usually it opens in seconds. I’ve waited 5 minutes and seen nothing.