Kleopatra GUI no longer launches. I have been runing version gpg4win-3.0.2 on a Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 machine for a couple of years without any issues.
So, I riedd installing the latest version 3.1.1 and it is the same issue.
Double clicking Kleopatra icon on my desktop - I can see the Kleopatra icon in the icons window - CTRL+ALT+Delete shows the kleopatra.exe *32 process, but it is inactive.
Any idea how I can resolve this? There are no error messages.
start a command line (cmd.exe) where you can type commands.
Go to the kleopatra icon, open its properties and use the path there, select and copy it, and paste it into the command line and press return.
(This will end on kleopatra.exe, you can also search for kleopatra.exe on the disk and use the path to there.)
What I do not understand is, I was using the older Kleopatra version perfectly, then one day it stopped showing its GUI screen, it just had the icon in the lower right handside taskbar.
Pressing Ctrl Alt Delete shows kelopatra.exe _32 stuck on 0% CPU power, the application doesn’t launch.
Clean installs makes no difference.
Please help, as this was the best software out there!
I eventually got Kleopatra to launch using the DOS method as you said (see attached image).
Yes calling gpg.exe --version does work.
After getting it to work through DOS. I closed Kleopatra down, then tried launching it normally through the Windows Start - program Icon and it started successfully?!
At least now it works! I wonder if will continue to work or if I will have to do the DOS method each time?
And I don’t know why it stopped working and how the command line operations could have changed this. Wild guessing could be some sort of permission issue. Maybe executing kleopatra once wrote a file with different permissions or so. Again, this is just wild guessing, it is quite hard to know what windows is doing something from just a written permission.