Opera starts minimised

[BerkeleyF]

BerkeleyF last edited by

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 last edited by

@BerkeleyF Opera One, Opera GX or Opera Air?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

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.

[fanman20]

fanman20 @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426
Thank you for your reply. I had checked the shortcut properties which were OK. Removing the sessions folder was also of no benefit.
Unfortunately, having never used JSONedit before, I was unable to easily edit the preference file to try that approach. Due to a desperate need to get it up and running, I saved all files and then deleted Opera completely adding a fresh install. I then copied a number of the files from my laptop which allowed me to recover most of my data. I have now re-installed ZebNet backup which I used to use on my old Desktop.

To leocg. Sorry I was not notified of your answer. It is Opera One. Having used Opera for so long I don't think of it as that.
Regards All.

[fanman20]

fanman20 last edited by

Now I am confused. I just replied to a post having logged in to an old account (user fanman20) which forums told me was closed.
Who am I today???? :o)

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @fanman20 last edited by

@fanman20 Probably the topic you were trying to reply to was closed?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @fanman20 last edited by

@fanman20 Did doing a fresh install fix the issue then?