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After installing 4.2 Alpha 1, starting SABNZBd opens an empty Powershell window which does not close.
Reinstalling 4.1 resumes normal startup.

What version of Windows do you use?

Windows 11 Pro
22H2 Build 22621.2428

Hmmm, just to be sure: you just click the shortcut in the Start menu or the Desktop and this happens?
Does it also happen when you go to the actual location of SABnzbd.exe and open it directly?

Got the same here on win 11home. Powershell window opens, when starting sabnzbd. Closing the window closes sabnzbd aswell.

safihre wrote: ↑October 20th, 2023, 12:02 am Hmmm, just to be sure: you just click the shortcut in the Start menu or the Desktop and this happens?
Does it also happen when you go to the actual location of SABnzbd.exe and open it directly?

Happens in all 3 cases, whether started from Start Menu, Desktop, or direct from .exe

- I was mistaken, it's not a Powershell window, but a blank command prompt window (right clicking on the taskbar icon, Powershell was simply first in the list)

- If I close the window, SABnzbd shuts down

- If I shutdown SABnzbd via right click shutdown on system tray icon, window closes but just before closing flashes the following error:
WNDPROC return value cannot be converted to LRESULT
TypeError: WPARAM is simple, so must be an int object (got NoneType)

I was able to reproduce on my work laptop

https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstal ... 1772485556

Here's a fix for this, it involves setting the Windows 11 Terminal app to default to 'Windows Console Host' instead of 'Windows Terminal' on startup. It's default is Let Windows Decide and it appears to always "decide" on Windows Terminal.

- Open Terminal

- To the right of any existing tabs, right click on a blank area of the tab bar
(or left click on the drop down symbol next to the + sign)
in either case then choose Settings

- Once in settings, set 'Default terminal application' to 'Windows Console Host'

- 'Save' settings

- Did you remember to save settings?

After doing the above, SABnzbd will start correctly without leaving a terminal window
open.

Note these are *not* the same set of settings found for Terminal in the app list, so if you can't find it, maybe that's where you went looking. Do the above.

Also posted on https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/8022