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 Post subject: Latest update broke parts of my start menu!
PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 11:27 pm 
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As always I create an image before updating any software. I noticed after updating to 16.12 of Winstep Extreme that some of my programs won't launch in Nextstart. Some will even throw up a window with a reason why. If I restore my image that I made right before the update, everything works fine again.

I have red lines pointing to some of the programs that won't launch anymore. I didn't try everything in the entire tree but I'm sure there are more.

Any ideas why this is happening?


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 Post subject: Re: Latest update broke parts of my start menu!
PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 12:32 pm 
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Eh? That seems to be a 32 vs 64 bit issue.

And I just reproduced it here. I'll let you know more when I find out more.

What version were you running prior to v16.12 that did not have this problem? v16.9 or something earlier?

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 Post subject: Re: Latest update broke parts of my start menu!
PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 12:59 pm 
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Ok, figured out what it is and fixed it.

Has to do with a change I made in v16.12 to fix a previous issue where resolving a shortcut would sometimes invoke the MSI installer.

So, I fixed one thing and broke another. Typical, lol

That's why they have that old programmer's joke:

99 little bugs in the code.
99 little bugs in the code.
Take one down, patch it around.
127 little bugs in the code...

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 Post subject: Re: Latest update broke parts of my start menu!
PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 3:08 pm 
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Yeah, i was running 16.9, and still am until i can get this bug fix. Thanks!


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 Post subject: Re: Latest update broke parts of my start menu!
PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 5:46 pm 
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I made many under-the-hood changes to v16.2, so even though it has a tremendous amount of improvements and 'polish' to existing features, unfortunately it also seems to have a couple of serious bugs.

Because of this I may issue a beta of v17.1 earlier than expected (which will be mostly a maintenance release anyway). Make sure 'Notify me of beta (test) versions' is enabled in Preferences.

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