Lorby's AAO starts as a process - fixed for now

[Darth_Vapor666]

Hi, I dont know what I am doing wrong but recently, AAO wont start as an app. I have installed the latest version, am opening it as administrator and have created a firewall rule to no avail. I only use it for its gauges on Stream Deck but unless the app opens, I cant activate the gauges. Can someone please help. I am at my wits end.

 

Possibly solved:  I reluctantly tried a solution online involving changing two registry settings which seems to have fixed the problem. Still begs the question why it was only preventing AAO from running as a program. 

[Darth_Vapor666]

I don't think I can edit this topic one more time. Unfortunately, after restarting the pc, AAO is back to opening as a background process rather than as a program. I am on Windows 11. None of the other programs are behaving this way. Is anyone else having issues starting it? Please help. 

[Lorby_SI]

3 hours ago, Darth_Vapor666 said:

I don't think I can edit this topic one more time. Unfortunately, after restarting the pc, AAO is back to opening as a background process rather than as a program. I am on Windows 11. None of the other programs are behaving this way. Is anyone else having issues starting it? Please help. 

I'm sorry, but I have no idea what this means.

What do you mean by "starting as a process" and "starting as a program" exactly? What does "starting as a background process" look like?

AAO is a default Windows Client program, built on and running inside the .Net 4.8 framework. It has no choice in how it wants to behave. This seems to be something that your computer is doing somehow.

[Darth_Vapor666]

Hi, so the image explains what I mean. AAO likes to open and sit under background processes and not as an app, which means I cannot see its UI to be able to do anything with it. Funny thing is that its happening some times and not others. I know it may be something on my PC conflicting with it, but perplexed that its only affecting AAO. 

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[Lorby_SI]

7 hours ago, Darth_Vapor666 said:

AAO likes to open and sit under background processes and not as an app,

It is not like the program has a choice - it will be started as the operating system instructs it to. 

Maybe there is trouble with one of your HID devices and AAO is either stuck in an internal error or it is waiting for a device to respond pretty much indefinitely (=before the .Net Framework gets a chance to load the GUI). When you do get it working, got to "Hardware->Device Blacklist" and move everything into the list on the right with the "Ignore" button, except the game controllers that you are actively using in AAO (=only the yoke, joystick etc. remains on the left side. Mice, Keyboards, the StreamDeck, HID devices - they all must be ignored)

[Darth_Vapor666]

Ok thanks, I have done as suggested.