Opera starts minimised

BerkeleyF

BerkeleyF

I have been running opera on Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
For about 3 months. It is on a desktop PC with Intel Core i5 14600K, 32GB Ram, onboard graphics and 25GB SSD.

I have had a recurring problem where opera begins starting as a minimised window on the task bar (sometimes with more than one tab) but it will not expand to a full window. Cntrl+Shift+Esc shows that 30-50 processes have started.

This was a clean install on a new PC with Win11. The problem has occurred 3-4 times and has been overcome by a delete and reinstall keeping the data; until now! Now re-install does not work and I am unable to enter Opera in any way. clearing the processes removes opera from the task bar, The desktop shortcut (or the application) restarts in the same way.

I would welcome any suggestions before I scrub the PC and registry clean, and install from fresh losing my data.
I have used Opera since V3 1997/98?, but have had few real problems with it until I installed it on Windows 11.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @BerkeleyF

@BerkeleyF Opera One, Opera GX or Opera Air?

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

While Opera is fully close and there are no Opera processes in the Windows task manager, you can delete the "Sessions" folder in the profile folder. Path to the profile folder is shown at the URL opera://about. Just note that will wipe out all your tabs too.

While Opera is closed, you can edit the "Preferences" file in the profile folder with JSONedit in tree mode. Under root/browser, you can right-click on the "window_placement" node, choose "Delete selected node" and then save your changes. That will put things back to default.

You can also right-click Opera's desktop shortcut, goto "Properties", switch to the "Shortcut" tab and examine the target field's value to make sure there are no command-line switches being passed to opera.exe to tell it to start minimized. For Opera's taskbar button, you can do the same by right-clicking it and then right-clicking "Opera Browser". Also on the "Shortcut" tab for those, you can check the "run" setting to make sure it's not set to "minimize".

Besides all that, it might be one of your extensions at the URL opera://extensions.