new version freezing and will not leave default theme

[hyunchris]

i have a new PC and just installed big box, which works fine on my laptop. but on the new PC, i cant get bigbox to work properly. It is freezing when scrolling and also, it wont apply the themes i download and install. Anyone else having issues? I am wondering if its the new version of Big box or my PC? I already uninstalled and reinstalled

[hyunchris]

update: I copied the launchbox folder (containing 13.21) from my laptop and pasted it into the new PC. it worked perfectly until it tried to update to version 13.22 automatically. I cancelled the update and now launchbox no longer works again. I have a feeling maybe this is user error and maybe I set up something in 13.21 correctly and not in 13.22...however, maybe it could also be that the new PC runs win 10 and not win 11 like the laptop?

Edited August 11 by hyunchris

[JoeViking245]

49 minutes ago, hyunchris said:

update: I copied the launchbox folder (containing 13.21) from my laptop and pasted it into the new PC. it worked perfectly until it tried to update to version 13.22 automatically. I cancelled the update and now launchbox no longer works again. I have a feeling maybe this is user error and maybe I set up something in 13.21 correctly and not in 13.22...however, maybe it could also be that the new PC runs win 10 and not win 11 like the laptop?

It's not a Windows 10 thing.  (if it were, I'd be in a world of hurt on all my PC's. )

If you're OK with 13.21, copy the files over again from the laptop.  Then navigate (on the PC) to /LaunchBox/Data/ and using any text editor, open Settings.xml and search for 

 <CheckForUpdates>true</CheckForUpdates>

Replace it with 

 <CheckForUpdates>false</CheckForUpdates>

Save and close, THEN start LaunchBox.

 

See if Big Box still has the same issues. 

[hyunchris]

thanks, i copied 13.21 over one more time. then opened bigbox and it started to update to 13.22. this time there are no issues. so I am good to go. not sure why it wasnt working before