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tjackenpacken / taskbar-groups

Lightweight utility for organizing the taskbar through groups
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Minor Application Error after User Error... #111

Open ironwaffle opened 3 years ago

ironwaffle commented 3 years ago

First and foremost, I love this. In the short time since I installed it, this has helped me declutter the taskbar and make it easily navigable again. So big thanks!

So. The mistake I made is that when adding a Utilities group, I was working on autopilot. When adding VNCviewer to that group, I got a popup with two options: "Continue" and "Exit." I foolishly chose "Continue." (see below). Taskbar Groups still works but whenever re-opening it, I get a pop-up dialogue: "C:\Program Files (x86)\RealVNC\VNC Server\vncguihelper.exe".

Taskbar Groups then opens fine but that group I created isn't listed so I can't delete VNC or the group itself. I deleted that group from my Taskbar and a few other things I've forgotten, The original group does still appear in the "shortcuts" folder and can be added to the actual taskbar. Clicking to open that group brings back what I believe is the original warning I should have exited: "Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately. C:\Program Files (x86)\RealVNC\VNC Server\vncguihelper.exe"

I renamed the Taskbar Group exe and Shortcuts folder to try a reinstall, but I lost my nerve since all the other groups work well and I don't want to risk making things worse. I did try creating another group with the same name and correctly got an error that said group already exists. (I renamed this new group so I can re-add it for actual usage).

Not sure if there's a fix on my end or not and it was certainly my error by making the wrong choice. Regardless, I thought it worth sharing. Again, aside from this little nag, it still works as anticipated.

Thanks again.

PikeNote commented 3 years ago

I will look into it but what I suspect the error that is popping up is RealVNC not being in Program Files x86 but rather Program Files.

Sorry about the inconvenience and I will look to a fix soon for proper error handling. My current goal is to merge pull requests into 1 release so I can properly start adding new features again.