https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e DisplayFusion RSS: Windows 10 Cannot open DisplayFusion windows Fri, 01 May 2026 03:49:00 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#37 Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:02:11 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#37 DisplayFusion I tried sending you an email back on March 22nd. Did you receive it? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#36 Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:00:17 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#36 DisplayFusion I have to expand the problem description a little.
Additional to the previous problems, I have discovered that the invocation of any commands, such as opening taskmgr or using right click commands on running applications (except close), through the displayfusion taskbar produces the same error. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#35 Sat, 19 Mar 2016 21:41:19 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#35 DisplayFusion Tried it, doesn't change anything. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#34 Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:17:56 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#34 DisplayFusion Ok, I've tested this out again here, with Steam and DF both being installed and run as a local user on startup, and everything works correctly for me. I'm totally stumped on what the issue could be here.

Perhaps some Windows system files are corrupt? You can try the following two commands to repair Windows and the .NET Framework to see if that makes any difference at all:

sfc /scannow
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#33 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:35:47 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#33 DisplayFusion Ok, thanks! I'm going to do some more testing here to see if I can reproduce the same results. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#32 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:22:25 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#32 DisplayFusion Regular user. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#31 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:53:11 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#31 DisplayFusion Do you run Steam as administrator, or just a regular user? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#30 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:39:51 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#30 DisplayFusion It starts with windows. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#29 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:19:29 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#29 DisplayFusion Is DisplayFusion set to start with Windows, or do you manually launch it when you login? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#28 Sat, 13 Feb 2016 11:24:54 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#28 DisplayFusion Here you go.
Hasn't been working once to open it from tray or contextmenu since I replied last. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#27 Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:57:27 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#27 DisplayFusion I'm running out of ideas too

Can you attach a copy of your troubleshooting info? Here are the steps:

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]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#26 Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:45:12 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#26 DisplayFusion It's been not working for 4 days now. No idea what makes it work or not work. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#25 Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:47:35 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#25 DisplayFusion Thanks for the update again! Is everything still working correctly? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#24 Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:09:33 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#24 DisplayFusion The Icons are back now, after restarting with the folder renamed to the original name. Both are working right now, so I still can't tell if there is a difference. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#23 Thu, 04 Feb 2016 22:55:53 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#23 DisplayFusion The "not working" of the context menu settings was due to having renamed the displayfusion folder. It currently works from both tray and context menu to open the settings, so I don't know if it is a tray only problem. The icon is still missing though. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#22 Thu, 04 Feb 2016 21:17:06 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#22 DisplayFusion From the tray icon. That's where I get the error i originally described.
When I try to open it from the context menu it just doesn't do anything. Also the context menu is missing the displayfusion icon and just displays the default application icon. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#21 Thu, 04 Feb 2016 20:12:52 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#21 DisplayFusion Oh, interesting! So are you trying to open the Settings from the desktop context menu? Or from the DisplayFusion system tray icon? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#20 Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:53:44 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#20 DisplayFusion So, I took the liberty of enabling logging and trying to make some sense of this error.
1.: I should have been more specific in describing the problem. What happens is that if i open a displayfusion window, it shows me the splash screen and then the error message. The splash screen timeouts and disappears.
2.: The "DisplayFusionSettings.exe" does not have any problems itself. If i copy the arguments from the log file, it opens correctly.
3.: I'll just attach the log file for your own perusal.

I don't know where in Steam I could get the key. There is a Licence Key value in the log file though. If that is not what you need, you'll have to explain how to find the key. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#19 Wed, 03 Feb 2016 20:09:32 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#19 DisplayFusion Can you email us your Steam key (support@displayfusion.com)? I'll link it to your account and send you a non-Steam key to try out. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#18 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 20:35:23 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#18 DisplayFusion I am using Windows 10.
I recently upgraded from Windows 8.1 (clean install), and that was when this started. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#17 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 20:25:26 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#17 DisplayFusion That's really strange! You should be able to run DisplayFusion even without Steam running. I will do some testing here to see what I can find out. Which version of Windows are you running? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#16 Sat, 30 Jan 2016 18:58:47 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#16 DisplayFusion I believe it to be some kind of licensing issue.
I looks like there is a 1 day licensing period before it has to be reactivated through steam.
If steam is not active, it will work until the current period runs out. If steam is active it will just continue working. But if steam is not active it doesn't suffice to start steam and try again, but I have to restart the computer (making sure that displayfusion is not in autostart), start steam, and then start displayfusion. Not quite so easy to track this down ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#15 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 21:14:27 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#15 DisplayFusion I can't even imagine what the problem could be there. It's odd that it's so random. Have you tried testing the memory with something like memtest86+? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#14 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:18:20 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#14 DisplayFusion Nope, wasn't the card. It's not working again today. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#13 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:51:38 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/windows-10-cannot-open-displayfusion-windows/?ID=783091c1-dd85-4339-bd50-e51b583ab70e#13 DisplayFusion Wow, not sure on that! Keep me posted on how it goes though ]]>