PlanG wont open

[NitroUK]

Hi Tim and all,

At the moment  (waiting to hear from my pc manufacturer wether i can downgrade to win 7 without losing my warranty) im running window 8 (dot net 4 included in the os) and when i double click the PlanG icon on my desktop i see the initial little loading screen then this



With windows telling me nothing after i close that window. I've tried compatability mode for all os's as well as running as admin...

Any suggestions? apart from throwing the pc out lol..

Best wishes Glenn Wellstead (new CIX VFR pilot)

[phgvl]

Hi,
Try the utility "Whatishang". Run it while starting Plan-G.
Maybe, it will tell more... It helped me anyway.
Gerard.

[NitroUK]

Hi Phgvl thanks for the "whatshang" idea...here is the report :

Unfortunately i couldn't post the report directly here (exceeded the 20000 word limit for a post) so i have provided a link to the the text file (virus scanned) that i've uploaded to my dropbox.


https://www.dropbox.com/s/fqtr31y9uc0oxk2/PlanG.txt

[tim arnot]

It looks like the old DotNet startup issue. There are several threads on that here. Mostly they recommend checking your .net 4 install is up to date, try reinstalling it. I can't say how effective that is, cos no one ever reports back. (maybe they all get sucked into a black hole, or something...)

[NitroUK]

Hi Tim and all, ive come back to report my findings....

Well i was so fed up after checking the dot net 4 installer (to check it was all there - reported it was installed) and also the dot net fixer, plus trying to install older dot net versions that i did a full factory restore of the win 8 pc... just got FSX installed and running and have just installed PlanG and its working !!!!

Obviously something had gone wrong with win 8 and doing a factory restore resolved it :)

Thanks for the tips etc and can i wish you and all the PlanG forum viewers a very Happy Christmas.

Glenn Wellstead

[tim arnot]

Thanks. That helps confirm that it's "something up with DotNet" causing the problem. I'm sure there *must* be a less drastic way to fix it, but as yet, I don't know what it is...