Windows 11

[RonAM]

My solar prominence image was acquired with my “new” laptop that I did buy with Win 10 pro, then updated to Win 11. It runs SharpCap version 4.0.8395.0 just fine.

[outdoorboy]

Hello, I was afraid that my Astro-Pc would stop working after updating to Windows 11, so I stopped it. In the course of increasing the size of my SSD to 2TB, I did the update for Windows 11 on the old system.

SharpCap won't run and "dealing with compatibility issues" doesn't help either.

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Neither of the two possible choices help.

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I use: SharpCap 4.0 (64bit)

Franz

[outdoorboy]

Attempt to reinstall.

Was able to reinstall SharpCap.

SharpCapInstall-4.0.8791.0-64bit.exe

Everything as before. No reaction of the program apparent.

Franz

[outdoorboy]

Good morning

good news SharpCap is running.

Right click / show more options

Properties click

Select Compatibility tab.

Check Run program as administrator

Apply

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SharpCap is running

[Menno555]

Good to hear Franz!
Once running, does SharpCap all things you want it to do?

Menno

[outdoorboy]

Connected the camera and took the first pictures (daylight). At first glance, everything seems to work.

Notes on my last post.

It does not work in Windows 8 compatibility mode. Run program as administrator is required. This always pops up the question if the program is allowed to make changes, which must be confirmed with yes. This is an annoying nuisance.

The question is whether this is generally the case and why.

With other programs this is not so.

Franz

[admin]

Hi Franz,

SharpCap shouldn't need to run as administrator - let me test that on Win11 and see if I see the same thing.

thanks,

Robin

[admin]

Hi,

I have just tested on fully up-to-date Win11, with SharpCap 4.0.8791 x64. It runs quite nicely without needing the 'as administrator' tweak, even for a user who is a standard user rather than an administrator. You do see a prompt the first time you run to allow access for network - this is related to PointGrey and/or Basler cameras, which can be connected over Gigabit Ethernet.

I think whatever problem you are seeing is an anomaly, rather than standard behaviour on Win11 - it would help to know the exact error you get when not running as administrator, since I have not seen any uploaded bug reports that might relate to this.

cheers,

Robin

[outdoorboy]

Hello,

I could not provide any information because there was no response to starting the program. The task manager also showed nothing.

As I wrote before, I was afraid of the update. It would not be the first time that after an update things that worked before no longer work.

Solution:

Flatten Windows 11 and reinstall from scratch. (Tool for media creation)

Reinstall SharpCap and it works.

cheers,

Franz

[admin]

Hi,

sounds like it was just one of those weird things that happens to Windows from time to time. The other thing to be aware of is that Antivirus tools can cause all sorts of weird problems if they decide to misbehave, and stopping an application from starting up is just the sort of thing you might expect from that sort of problem.

cheers,

Robin