Before everyone bookmarks the posting with the nine-step
uninstall/install/manual-regedit process to get the Edit Tool back, I
will try to head this off because we will */not/* be able to help
recover PCs from failed attempts to edit the Windows registry. If you
run into the "No Edit QSO Tool" problem in V12.01, I have posted this
script that will clean /only/ the WL12 saved window positions from the
registry:
http://writelog.com/Downloads/DeleteRegistryWL12WindowPositions.vbs
Because the above is a script, your browser is likely to be very, very
suspicious of it (and rightly so!) But if you have no Edit QSO Tool, the
above is a way to get it back.
IMPORTANT: AFTER RUNNING THIS SCRIPT
THE NEXT TIME YOU RUN WRITELOG, HOLD DOWN CTRL WHILE YOU OPEN ANY
EXISTING .WL FILE.
The window positions are saved in the .wl file and you'll be right back
where you started if you fail to hold down CTRL.
By the way, please don't email everyone if you notice the script fails
the /second/ time you run it--that is /normal/. Once the key is deleted,
an attempt to delete it again fails.
As a matter of policy, we don't preannounce WL features before release,
but this time I will: Version 12.02 will provide a way to clean only the
saved window positions from the Windows registry. It will work this way:
Hold down CTRL when you Setup/Save-config. (Why hold down CTRL? from
"way back" it has been the case that holding down CTRL when opening a
.wl file does not read the windows positions from the .wl. So there is
at least some symmetry here.)
Wayne
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