2017-05-01, 10:54
I recently installed Kodi K17 on my Win 7 system and couldn't get it to start correctly without first going to a White Screen with the 'not responding' message and a choice to either close or wait. Selecting wait then resulted in a Black Screen. If I used Alt - Tab I could switch to the desktop then back to Kodi and find it was running and I was now at the Home Screen.
Same install on a couple of other Win10 systems had no problems.
I checked the other posts regarding similar problems but suggested solutions made no difference
I then checked the logs and noticed similar warnings and errors in all machines but one thing I noticed was that Aero was disabled on the Win 7 machine. I then recalled that I had adjusted the Visual Effects, under the Performance Options, to custom settings. As soon as I set this back to letting Windows manage the options Kodi started up first time and is still doing so.
This may not work for everyone but did for me.
Same install on a couple of other Win10 systems had no problems.
I checked the other posts regarding similar problems but suggested solutions made no difference
I then checked the logs and noticed similar warnings and errors in all machines but one thing I noticed was that Aero was disabled on the Win 7 machine. I then recalled that I had adjusted the Visual Effects, under the Performance Options, to custom settings. As soon as I set this back to letting Windows manage the options Kodi started up first time and is still doing so.
This may not work for everyone but did for me.