Xlights wont start now after crash. I am freaking out

[needbrew]

I was sequencing and it crashed now it wont start at all.  I can see xlights.exe in the windows task manager and then it just goes away.  I tried uninstalling and re-installing and the same thing is happening.  renamed my show directory and it still wont load.

Any help appreciated

[needbrew]

Ok, after digging around I found an old post about this I removed the registry key for the start directory.  Uninstalled xlights 52 and re-installed.  Now it is working. 

[iowaguysc]

any way you could share the post that you found, or what reg keys you deleted?

STOPPED working after the 53 upgrade, and won't even hit the Task Manager

Thanks

[needbrew]

here is the link to the post http://nutcracker123.com/forum/index.php?topic=3117.msg19408#msg19408

[Gilrock]

All deleting registry keys does is makes the computer forget where the xLights show directory lives.  Uninstalling and reinstalling xLights never really fixes any problems no matter what any user might think.  There is nothing that happens upon install that can fix anything.  If you have a screwed up show directory then you should be able to rename (while xLights is closed) and then upon restarting xLights it will prompt you for a show directory, pick a clean directory.  Also you should have tons of backup files for your show directory that you could copy back in.  I've never seen a problem that required registry changes.  I know someone claimed they renamed their show directory and it didn't help but I think you did something wrong.