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dmorris68:
Maybe nobody else is seeing this as I don't see a report.  But about every 2nd or 3rd time I boot up (or 4th, or 5th, and sometimes several times in a row -- it varies), when the Windows desktop loads the SSC edit window pops up showing the last SS I took.  Then when I close it, the SSC balloon tip in the task tray pops up to "welcome" me to SSC, as if this was the first time I had installed it and rebooted.  It started doing this maybe 6-9 months ago?  Don't remember.  At first I didn't think much of it, but however many updates later it still does it, and it has become annoying.

Is it writing a "first run" registry entry somewhere that's getting hosed maybe?

I'm running Win7 Ultimate x64, btw.

mouser:
hi dmorris,

It saves its first use flag in its settings file (ScreenshotCaptor.ini), so it sounds to me like its having trouble saving this file, or trying to save it to a wrong/protected location.

Did you by change move over your settings file from another pc, or do you use the ConfigDir.ini file to try to make the program portable? 

dmorris68:
hi dmorris,

It saves its first use flag in its settings file (ScreenshotCaptor.ini), so it sounds to me like its having trouble saving this file, or trying to save it to a wrong/protected location.

Did you by change move over your settings file from another pc, or do you use the ConfigDir.ini file to try to make the program portable?  
-mouser (January 20, 2011, 09:37 PM)
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No, I've not moved or edited any config files by hand, nor tried to make it portable.  However it's very likely that my configuration files & install folder date back to other versions of Windows, probably back to my XP days since I've been using SSC a long time.  My apps are on another drive from my OS, so whenever I've upgraded OSes or PCs, I reinstall apps to their existing folders on the app drive, therefore some settings and files will be quite old if they're not overwritten.

And I'm running as an Admin account with UAC disabled, so there should be no protected file/registry areas.  Nothing is installed to Program Files anyway, my SSC is installed to D:\Tools\Graphics\ScreenshotCaptor.  I'm looking through ScreenshotCaptor.ini now -- which setting controls first-run?

mouser:
CheckBoxFirstMinimize.Checked="false"

mouser:
the other thing that could be going wrong is if that file is getting deleted or corrupted.
or sc is getting confused about it on startup.

check the file data make sure it is being saved when you exit it.  you might try changing some setting, exiting sc, restarting, and making sure the change was remembered.

you could also try editing the ConfigDir.ini file and manually specifying a location for the file.

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