Oz Wald
New Member
Hi All,
For the past few months I have been supplying data pretty much continually using RTL1090/pfclient through my 8 year old laptop that has been wheezing along quite happily, with only the occasional dropped connection due to Windows Vista updating and doing a restart, plus crow damage.
Yesterday I (foolishly, with hindsight) decided to do a restart to allow the 15 updates that didn't enforce a restart to do their thing.
When I tried to restart RTL1090, the logo appeared on the taskbar, but no window opened in the screen. Hovering over the taskbar button showed an undetailed outline of what should be on the screen, but nothing more. Repeated attempts using shortcuts, the start menu and even opening as administrator from Explorer, gave the same result. RTL1090 opens fine on my newer laptop, so I'm thinking it is a problem with Windows or the pc.
I have tried uninstalling RTL1090 (a chore in itself) and reinstalling it (V.2 & V.3) - no luck.
I'm currently doing a clean install of Vista (it's the only o/s I have a disk for) as a last ditch effort.
I know Win is not the preferred option, but I have no experience of Linux, so am a bit wary of taking the leap.
Can anyone offer any insight?
Cheers
Oz
For the past few months I have been supplying data pretty much continually using RTL1090/pfclient through my 8 year old laptop that has been wheezing along quite happily, with only the occasional dropped connection due to Windows Vista updating and doing a restart, plus crow damage.
Yesterday I (foolishly, with hindsight) decided to do a restart to allow the 15 updates that didn't enforce a restart to do their thing.
When I tried to restart RTL1090, the logo appeared on the taskbar, but no window opened in the screen. Hovering over the taskbar button showed an undetailed outline of what should be on the screen, but nothing more. Repeated attempts using shortcuts, the start menu and even opening as administrator from Explorer, gave the same result. RTL1090 opens fine on my newer laptop, so I'm thinking it is a problem with Windows or the pc.
I have tried uninstalling RTL1090 (a chore in itself) and reinstalling it (V.2 & V.3) - no luck.
I'm currently doing a clean install of Vista (it's the only o/s I have a disk for) as a last ditch effort.
I know Win is not the preferred option, but I have no experience of Linux, so am a bit wary of taking the leap.
Can anyone offer any insight?
Cheers
Oz