Desktopcal 2.2.32.4330 worked great for years then somehow an update

10fused said:

I can find no way to import my prior and now FUBAR calendar's 3 years worth of entries into it.

Oh, I see. Hard nut to crack. But if the old one is kaput, you may have to grit your teeth and dive into something new, manually doing what you can. If you can find a way to export your stuff to Google Calendar, it can be imported to Windows Calendar. Sorry.........

It seems to me if I would manage to wipe any and all traces of the prior attempts to install, it would install and work again. I don't know if malware got it or what, but, dealing with the text backups is way too much work.



Does this look right to you? For some reason it doesn't to me and it seems like it came after a peculiar event log thing I ran across that appeared to be a wardrive atttempt and my machine acted funky for a little bit
until I took it off wifi going hardwire .

10fused said:

It seems to me if I would manage to wipe any and all traces of the prior attempts to install, it would install and work again. I don't know if malware got it or what, but, dealing with the text backups is way too much work.

Then I have a suggestion...cost you nothing but a few minutes of time.

If you want to try and totally obliterate all traces of it and do a re-install to see if it will work, go get the free TRIAL (Pro) version of Revo Uninstaller and uninstall all traces. Revo digs down deep. Trial is good for 30 days and has all features enabled. It's worth a shot if you think a real clean reinstall would work.

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I did the Revo and reinstalled. I scanned afterwards and deleted everything and since I had renamed the folder that the backups are in, they are safe.

Now with this new install, it is positioned in the far right of my left monitor and when I turn the right one off then on, for a moment it is positioned where it looks like I could get to the controls.

So I tried that and couldn't get to it fast enough even with the cursor positioned nearly on top of it.

When the other monitor powered on, the calendar was located where it could be used and then rapidly placed itself far right with the controls far right and off screen.

10fused said:

I did the Revo and reinstalled. I scanned afterwards and deleted everything and since I had renamed the folder that the backups are in, they are safe.

Now with this new install, it is positioned in the far right of my left monitor and when I turn the right one off then on, for a moment it is positioned where it looks like I could get to the controls.

So I tried that and couldn't get to it fast enough even with the cursor positioned nearly on top of it.

When the other monitor powered on, the calendar was located where it could be used and then rapidly placed itself far right with the controls far right and off screen.

So, you're saying it did uninstall and re-install ok, but with dual monitors, it's weird acting. Disable the secondary monitor, temporarily, and see if in fact it is running ok. If so, someone with dual monitor experience maybe can chime in with some pointers.

10fused said:

Turn off second monitor and unplug it then it works, I can place it where I want it.

Plug second monitor back in, turned on or off and it acts frozen and stupid although different stupid than prior.

Ok, that isolates that! Had to chuckle at your description. "Different stupid"

Time for a dual monitor guru to speak up. Among other things, way outa my league. Glad the app itself is behaving now.

10fused said:

Thank you so much.

I've noticed recently when I go to play chess, it may start up but not be visible. Turn the second monitor on and it appears.

Seems like some other app or software has also acted up like that so, I agree it appears to be dual monitor bugs.

You're welcome! Least you have a handle on it now.

A handle is an understatement! Calendar entries all the way back to 2009 and thru more than a dozen instances of drawn out events documented.

Now if I can get both monitors to act right together like they used to, that would be almost as huge a relief as your help putzing with this thing and I am pretty sure the Revo thing finally allowed a clean reinstall. Thanks again. Do I need to start another thread perhaps in a different forum section or see about getting this one moved and maybe with a title change?