Restart MinimServer After Windows Reboot Without Rescan

[Andre Gosselin]

(22-03-2015 16:36)simoncn Wrote:  

Quote:2. Sometimes the MinimServer icon in the taskbar stops responding, i.e. right-clicking does nothing....the usual context options are not displayed and the only way I can get them back is by killing the javaw process and excuting MinimServer again from the program menu. Unfortunately I then have to wait for a full rescan. As for question 1 any way to deal with this without having to do a full rescan?

Thanks.
Chris

This problem with the icon shouldn't be happening and I would like to find out more about the cause. If you have the JDK installed (or are willing to install it), please enter the following command from a command prompt when this happens:

jstack <pid>

where <pid> is the PID shown by Task Manager for the javaw process. Please attach the output from jstack to a post here. Many thanks!

I experienced a few times this problem about the Minimserver icon not responding in the Windows taskbar. The problem always occured after the Windows explorer (explorer.exe, which manages the taskbar among other things) crashed on me. Following the crash, the Windows explorer then restarts automatically, but the minimserver icon then becomes irresponsive. I always reboot the pc in that case, since I tend to not trust the explorer anymore.

It would be interesting to see what happens to the minimserver icon if explorer.exe is manually killed.

Regards