Piolet will not start

[Azzuth]

So I downloaded piolet today. Everything goes smoothly into the install, but when piolet tries to run it shows the splash screen then nothing happens. I looked in the task manager to confirm that it started, and it had; that is the process was there, and it was taking up 80% of my CPU, but I had no physical application on my screen.

Has anyone else had this problem? Any input would be appreciated.
-Azzuth

[shawners]

did it show up on the taskbar on the bottom?? Did you install it with all other windows closed? What version did you install?

[Azzuth]

No it didn't show up in the taskbar. Yes it was installed with all other windows closed, and it was version 1.05

[JiMiThInG]

What version of Windows are you running?

[Azzuth]

I'm running WIndows XP pro

[JiMiThInG]

hmm odd I don't really know what to tell you. Tried doing a clean install?

[gabry_ll]

i'm having the same problem.

piolet always used to work fine for me, but i had a recent battle with spyware and attempted to clear my system of it. piolet then started freezing on the splash screen. a complete reinstall didn't fix it.

so who knows? we've somehow blocked some spyware it needs to run?

[Wolfie]

I have not used piolet for long time but I remember on my first try it was doing something to all the files in my share folder. Since there were a few gigs in there at the time it took quite a while and a lot of cpu.