It sounds like DX4WIN didn't shut down properly and the
SAVE\DX4WIN.CFG file got corrupted.  I hope you wrote the settings to
a .INI file at some point.  Just delete the .CFG file, restart DX4WIN,
and merge from your .INI file.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Gary E. Jones W5FI wrote:

> I just came home tonight to find that my dell Optiplex 755, which runs
> DX4win, had rebooted. It appears that it rebooted after being forced to
> reboot and download some update forced by Microsoft. The display was the
> wrong size as though whatever download had occurred had changed my monitor
> calibration.
>
>
>
> However, when I tried to load DX4WIN, it was like the ini file had been
> erased or maybe gone back to an earlier ini file, maybe even the default
> that you get from Paul when you buy a new license and program, because
> everything about the program was different. My call was in there, but all
> the station information was gone or wrong (e.g., wrong lat / lon, all the
> modes boxes were checked where I had only checked the ones that I really
> work, and the packet window was reset for no packet). It was like I was
> using a default ini file. Now I have started to recreate the layout that I
> like, but all spots are grayed out and none of them show their worked or
> needed status. The country database seems to be gone, but the logbook seems
> to be OK. When I try to open the country window, I get the following error
> "Fixed Column Count must be less than column count"
>
>
>
> I have no idea what just happened. Can anyone give me a clue. Has the
> program lot the INI file, and if so, how should I get it back without
> creating all sorts of problems.


-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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