Resolved FTM May Open, But No Display

I've been using Family Tree Maker 2011 for several months, and it works fine (Win7/64). This morning (I hadn't used it in about 10 days) it would not open, no matter if I used a desktop icon, the start menu, or FTM.exe itself. The hourglass was there for a few seconds, but the splash screen/opening screen never appeared.

I did a system restore to back a few days before the latest M$ update, but that didn't work. I then did a uninstall/reinstall, to no avail....even the offer to launch FTM at the end of the install process didn't work. MBAM shows no malware.

I also noticed that when I try to open FTM, the Application and Process columns in Task Manager show FTM as active. There are also messages of open programs when I try to shut down/restart. In short, FTM has apparently opened but there is no screen display. The rest of my PC is perfectly normal. I've never seen anything like this.

 

Pete....good suggestion, but it didn't work. I then did a SR back to a time when I knew FTM worked, so I'm OK now. Apparently the data bases got decoupled from the main program, so they couldn't talk to each other. Weird.