Dear community,
I need your help: I received reports that for some (few? many? all?) users Sky Dolly won’t launch on Windows 11, without any obvious error message.
The workaround seems to be to enable “Windows 8 compatibility mode” for the SkyDolly.exe exceutable.
So in the current v0.16.3 that has just been released I added a “crash handler” (and some small fix related to CSV import) that will - hopefully reveal the root cause. Read about it in the official announcement here:
As I am “stuck” on Windows 10 I cannot reproduce this myself on Windows 11, but my current working assumption is that the issue is releated to “user access control” (UAC) that bites Sky Dolly when trying to access the default “Documents” location.
(I will try to see whether UAC can be enabled on Windows 10 “Home” as well and try to reproduce this situation)
You can provide your crash reports preferrably on github, e.g. paste your “error report” in this existing issue:
Note that the “crash report” will contain the path to your logbook, e.g. c:\Users\Your User Name\Documents\Sky Dolly. You may edit this before pasting it anywhere, in order not to reveal your real-wold name (especially not here in the forum!).
Thank you and happy flying!
P.S. If you are on Windows 11 and Sky Dolly is working “out of the box” for you (as it should) then this information would also be helpful 
Note that you should never run Sky Dolly “with administrator rights”: it is expected to run with “normal user” access rights.