Hello Peter, After another new version of Control, I'm wrong again. I can't start Control again. This morning when I started up the computer I was able to open control and Home, change a bit Probe Z and then I wanted to jog back to my zero point. Then he did exactly the same as last time, he gave completely different numbers than I had entered. And of course you want to get back to work as soon as possible. So I closed Control, turned off my computer and then started it again, but now I can't start Control at all. I have disabled my VPN and firewall and even then I can't get it to work. I have uninstalled the app twice and reinstalled twice but it doesn't help. Sometimes it starts up but then I get a white screen and nothing else. Now I don't know what to do to restart my work. So I want to ask you if you can help me again. I followed your advice from last time and now I get an alert that there is a new version. Can you say approximately when the release time of the new versions is because if it comes in when I start up my computer in the shed in the morning then I'm afraid things will go wrong again. Edit: This morning (Saturday) I tried version 0.369 but it also refuses to boot. I see the icon on my desktop and when I double click on it I see that it is starting up but then nothing happens. I also tried the search icon in the taskbar, typed in openbuilds, clicked on the app, but Control does not start from there either. Also do not see the hidden icon on the taskbar in Control. I can't do anything now and I'm at my wits end. Who can help me? Thank you in advance Yours sincerely Bert
Try a different computer (or time for a refresh/reinstall of the OS on that one) Not every wrong in the world can be attributed to update: OpenBuilds-CONTROL/CHANGELOG.txt at master · OpenBuilds/OpenBuilds-CONTRO One should evaluate the self against the greater picture too: GitHub Release Stats - 1.0.370s EXE install has deployed to 1900+ computers at the time of this reply. 1/1900 = cannot be the update or one of the other 1899 okes would have let us know by now too. Of course one can even audit the code changes on github and see what changed. A typo fix and the usual SSL renewal (every 90 days) was all that changed
Hello Peter, It was by no means the intention to blame Control for not starting up. I think it's a fantastic piece of software that is made available to all of us for free. I was just looking for an answer to the question why control won't start. It will probably be my computer or its settings, but I'm scratching my head at what I might have changed. So I will follow your advice and try another windows computer. I'll let you know in the course of the day and if it's really my computer then I'll have to bite the bullet and buy a new one, something that's been on my mind for some time. It is not the youngest anymore, it is now 6 years old, but the rest of the programs all still work flawlessly. Yours sincerely Brt
In time CONTROL has to keep up with backend changes. We do change stuff, for the greater good. Upgrading backend to Electron 19 killed off Windows 7 support, but we were unable to compile the old code anymore. 3 weeks of intensive debate and technical work went into trying to avoid it but it was inevitable. So too, it should and does work fine on thousands of PCs daily. I am sorry for your troubles. I wish by heart I could accommodate and address every single user, I really do, but sometimes the unique issues are just that: unique to that user. Computers are still a mess. In my 20s I minded it less but nearing my 40s now I just can't excuse the constant mess of things changing all the time. But as a developer, I have to. I can either kill off a project with no more bugfixes, no new features, but it keeps working fine of someones 15 year old laptop for the example, or I get screamed up by the guy with the PC bought last week running the latest OS complaining it doesn't work for him. Either way someone's upset. Ps, might not need a PC replacement at all, just a clean OS reinstall. Nice fresh clean OS, up to date drivers, etc
I just installed Control on my other computer and it opens flawlessly. That means something on my computer is blocking Control from starting but I don't know what. I've been using Control since you put it on the site and it's always worked fine until recently. The fact that I am now the unlucky one where it no longer works is certainly not the fault of Control, but more of certain settings of my computer. I myself am not very good with computers and I will therefore have to ask my son-in-law to perform a clean start on this computer and then see if it works again. First of all, I can now use my other computer in my shed and that makes me happy for a whole week. Thanks for your answer and thinking along. I understand that you can't help every individual user with all their problems, but that was not my intention at all. Yours sincerely Bert
Hopefully you've happily resolved this but I just wanted to add a general Windows tip for when in situations like this, where it's starting to look like a reinstall of the OS is needed. Nothing too amazing: create a new user account, log in as that user an try the thing that was broken. If it works, then moving from one account to another in the same OS is usually less work/time than reinstalling the OS and rebuilding your user account again any way. If it still doesn't work, it's more evidence there isn't many options left.
Hello, thank you for your comment, but it was solved a long time ago and I have made a lot of work since then. I think it was a Windows hiccup, but I've never been able to figure out what exactly it was. I am happy that I can work with my machine again. I am a Happy carver. Bert
