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#200 PWS disappears in Windows 7

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2023-06-08
2009-12-24
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I've used password safe for years on XP. I recently installed Windows 7 on my Dell laptop, then downloaded and installed Password Safe v3.20.

It seems to work, but if the application is minimized or after it minimizes itself, it disappears from the task bar and task manager. If I start it again, it complains that the database is already in use. I can find pwsafe.exe in the process list of task manager, but I can find no way to recover the GUI.

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  • Rony Shapiro

    Rony Shapiro - 2009-12-24

    Odd. Other users haven't reported this using PasswordSafe under Win7.

    Have you enabled "Put icon in System Tray" (Manage->Options->System)?

    If not, can you try enabling it and write us if it makes a difference?

    Rony

     
  • Denis

    Denis - 2010-01-30

    I've just installed PWS 3.20 on W7 and had the exact same problem when PWS minimized after autotype, i.e. that the process is still listed in the Task manager but PWS can't be reaccessed anymore, either in the Task bar, through Alt-Tab, ...
    I've found a workaround/fix by doing the exact opposite of Ronys suggestion : I UN checked the "Put icon in System Tray" option and presently seems to work properly (although I can't create new groups with 3.20 in W7 which worked ok in XP SP3).

     
  • rafaelx

    rafaelx - 2023-06-08
    • Status: open --> closed
     

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