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I have a snap-in for MMC that I use daily. MMC will not launch on my Windows 11 laptop with the snap-in unless I change networks. Here are the steps:
I have submitted a ticket to the developer of PW Admin and they are looking into the issue and we have tried many things. I have talked to several other people using the same application on Windows 11 and they are not having the issue. I found another post where MMC would not load and followed those steps, but they did not work. These are the steps:
Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.
Mike
Open a command prompt. Run mmc.exe. From the File menu, select Add/Remove snapin. Select the PW Admin.
If it hangs at this point, then there is something wrong with that software and you will need to work with their support team to resolve the issue.
Then do a File/Save as, and save a new .msc file. Try using that.
I did that and the snap in was not in the list on the left.
What are you launching? Is it a .msc or .lnk file?
It's a .LNK file that is pointing to a folder.
Start In: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Bentley\ProjectWise\bin"
duplicate
What's the target? Any parameters?
The snap-in does not appear in the list to add.
Then you must not be using an MMC snapin. Probably best if you contact ProjectWise support as we have no idea what that program is doing.
I have contacted them and they are now pushing the issue to "development". They are sure it has something to do directly w/ my laptop (Yoga Pro 9) on Windows 11. I thought I would post here to see if anyone might have an idea of where to look.
So where I was headed was that in mmc you can add a snapin like eventviewer and point it to some server name. And if that server is not available when you launch the .msc file, it might hang for a bit. The remote server name gets embedded in the msc file, and the easiest solution is to just recreate it using the correct server name.
So if you were connecting to some other server that is no longer available, then this app might hang until there is some loss of network connectivity which allows it to fail and then continue. That is an educated guess.
I asked you what you were launching, and you replied with the name of the startin directory. Thats good to know but it didn't tell me the name of the application. So I asked "What's the target? Any parameters?" and provided an image.
You replied with "The snap-in does not appear in the list to add.", which you had already commented. So I don't know what you are running and have no way to recreate your problem to try to troubleshoot.
Were you testing with multiple servers? Are there any settings in HKCU\Sofware\WhateverKeyNameThisAppUses? Maybe uninstall and reinstall the software on your desktop?