HWInfo window will not open

[shadelon]

So I always put my PC to sleep. And today, I had an issue where one of my two monitors wouldn't initialize when I woke the PC. I restarted the PC and that resolved that issue. But now all of a sudden, the HWinfo window will not open at all. I have tried a million things. I've tried uinstalling and reinstalling. I've tried going in safe mode, refuses to run at all in safe mode because of some error about installing the driver, which is weird. I even tried running the portable version, that doesn't work either, same issue. So this is my last resort. I have no idea what to do to fix this. I am attaching the debug file. I hope someone can tell me what is going on.

 

[shadelon]

I will note, the application will run and detect sensors and everything, but then it shows up on the taskbar, and no window at all.

Edit: And it was running perfectly fine before this.

 

[Zach]

It sounds to me that somehow the HWiNFO sensors window is going outside your viewing desktop area. Like to a monitor that now does not exist.

 

[Martin]

Yes, looks like that. Try to "Reset Preferences" in HWiNFO.

 

[shadelon]

Yes, looks like that. Try to "Reset Preferences" in HWiNFO.

I tried that, like a thousand times. Didn't work

 

[shadelon]

Resetting preferences is not getting the window to show at all. Nothing is working. I really don't want to have to reinstall windows just to get HWInfo working again. *cry*

 

[shadelon]

Not even the portable version is working even, like I said.

 

[Martin]

Try to run "regedit" from command prompt.
Navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HWiNFO64
and delete that whole key.

If even that won't help, try to disable the "Validate Window Positions" option in HWiNFO.

 

[shadelon]

Try to run "regedit" from command prompt.
Navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HWiNFO64
and delete that whole key.

If even that won't help, try to disable the "Validate Window Positions" option in HWiNFO.

Holy crap it worked! Hero! So I did have to reinstall, but once I did that, and launched it, the window came up finally! Thank you so much!