X-Lite v4 softphone doesn't show up onscreen in Windows 7 (only nonfunctional tray icon)

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I installed X-Lite on a 64-bit Win 7 machine. Install seems to go smoothly, then when I launch the application, its splash screen appears, then it goes away, leaving a tray icon with the familiar up-and-down-arrows icon that software has. (I used previous versions of it up until 3 years ago with no problem.) No client window, no nothing. The tray icon is completely useless -- it has no context menu, clicks and double-clicks do nothing, only the name "X-Lite 4" appears as a tooltip when I hover over the tray icon.

All I can do is terminate it from Task Manager, under "End Process".

I get the impression X-Lite actually is drawing its window, but in an old GDI fashion that befuddles Win7's funky graphics subsystem. Does that make sense?

EDIT : It finally did display its main window -- some 15 minutes after I launched it! Maybe it got borked while auto-probing the firewall for its NAT settings?

JCCyC

Posted 2012-06-11T18:58:38.383

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Any chance you've tried re-installing it? – Garrett – 2012-06-11T19:08:00.630

Nah, it worked fine after that. Only the overly long startup delay is intriguing. – JCCyC – 2012-06-11T19:22:23.293

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