No root window in windows 7. Please help

vvvv beta question
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Hi guys,

It’s been a long rime since I last used vvvv.

For some reason, after installing it (on win7), when I load it, I don’t get any root window.
It seems that I only get the renderers.
I tried both the latest version and the last one I used (v4beta16) and got a similar behavior.
At first I thought the root window would be outside the screen but I connected my external display and it’s also not there.

Apparently I’m not the first one with this problem as I found in this old thread:

Can someone help?

Thanks in advance,
Nuno

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looks like you stumble into the most popular windows7/vista trap.

as stated at the download page under installation, you have to start vvvv at least once as administrator !

how to do it ? right click the vvvv.exe and you will find the option in the context menu.

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had same prob with 24, start as admin did’t help, can’t reproduce.
since wasn’t my hardware. 23 was working ok

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oh my! it worked!
I guess I should have paid enough attention to the install instructions :(
now my patch is up and running again!

thank you so much and sorry for such a lame question :p

Nuno