Launchbox/Bigbox doesn't fully close on exit

[alnyden]

Hi,

I've had this issue for a long time. I quit Launchbox or Bigbox but it's still running in the task manager. Thus, I can't switch between the two versions, because I get the message "another instance of this app is open." I have to close via the task manager each time. 

The new info, and the reason I'm posting this again, is becasue due to a hard drive crash I recently had to revert to a much older version of Launchbox (somewhere around 8 I think). Interestingly, I did not have that issue with the older version. As soon as I updated Launchbox, the closing issue returned.

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this, and if they have any suggestions for how to solve?

Thanks!

Rich

[Jayinem]

I had the same problem for a long time, and decided to make an autohotkey script that can kill it from task manager by hitting a key or key combo of your choosing and can even restart Launchbox after all with just that single hotkey. I can give it to you and help you set it up (if you have no autohotkey experience) if you'd like. But in my case, it just seemed to have went away on it's own I don't know how to actually fix it.  Possibly the only way is to totally start with a fresh install of Windows on your computer which obviously is not ideal. 

 

But it's not actually only an issue on new versions. I am still using a Launchbox from 2020 because every time I try to update I'd have to reinstall like 700 games and there's no way so I keep the old one and it happened on it. 

Edited 9 hours ago by Jayinem

[NickCulture12]

This has always been an issue, i gave up on trying to resolve it.