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No UI at startup on Windows 11 Pro

I believe I have everything set up properly on my Windows 11 machine - I've got OminRig installed, VARA modem installed and running fine with Winlink, etc - but when I start up the application I get no UI at all. The VarAC process is running in Task Manager and consuming 30% of my CPU, but nothing starts up.

Any known bugs related to Win 11 or other things I can try to debug?

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Mike Klaas

21h

This is the only post, relating to Win 11, that I could find. VarAC was a 5 min install on my Win 7 machine, with my IC7100 but, for the life of me, I can't get CAT working on my new Win 11 desktop. Does anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks, Mike

Chris Metcalf

Apr 11

Folder permissions were in fact the problem. I had put it in my "Program Files" folder, and when I deleted that and installed 3.5 to a folder within My Documents, it runs just fine!

Thanks!

irad d

Apr 11

Replying to

Hi Chris.

Can you please simulate it again and send me the VarAC.log for inspection. This will help me to see the error and address is so next time someone faces this problem they will get an informative message about it and how to resolve it and not just get a hanged process. than you !

Chris Metcalf

Apr 11

Replying to

@irad d I just tried reproducing it (unpacking again into Program Files and the running it) but because it couldn't create a log file I have no log file to share. I got the callsign prompt and then it froze and I had to kill it.

PE1PUX

Apr 08

Hi Chris,

I remember having similar issues. What worked for me was explicitly setting write permissions for the user which starts VarAC on the application folder. My assumption was VarAC tries to write something to disk without having proper permissions on the folder.

Erik

irad d

Apr 03

Anything in the varac.log file ?