PsychoPy opens a ton of windows at startup

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OS (e.g. Win10): Windows 10
PsychoPy version (e.g. 1.84.x): 2020.1.3

I bought a new computer and installed the older PsychoPy version since that’s what my experiments were built on. It was working fine until recently, I think after I installed the newest version of Python and Anaconda, which might’ve messed with PsychoPy’s settings. Now whenever I open PsychoPy at least 10+ experiment windows open which isn’t supposed to happen. Does anyone have a solution?

EDIT: I installed the latest version of PsychoPy and uninstalled Anaconda, and opening the Builder seems to cause the same issue, but not when I open the Runner.

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Did you find a solution? I am having the same problem. Thanks.

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I am having the same problem! Cannot find a way to fix this!

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Hi - I did, there was a setting to deactivate this. I think the settings cog/wheel thingee, then application, then there is a box where you can uncheck “reloadPrevExp”.
Hope that helps, cheers,
Sebastian

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This bug was essentially that, under some circumstances, each window was stored twice in the file which saves which windows you had open upon closing the app. So as above, you can fix this in the short term of unchecking that option - as it means the list of previous widows isn’t used.

We have a proper fix for this in the upcoming release (2025.1.0), but because the fix is to something which happened on closing the app, you won’t notice the fix after a reinstall until you’ve opened the app once, closed the windows you don’t want, then closed and opened it again.

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I have tried this but it did not work. I still get multiple windows opened. Plus, each time something does not work in the experiment (while still preparing it), the whole program crashes…