When I click the Lazarus icon in the tray, the blue Lazarus start page opens.
The main empty IDE appears - the Project Inspector is on the top but there are no Files or Required packages. A message appears, Titled: Open Project Text:An error occurred at last startup while loading C:\......... .lpi! Load this project again?
There are two buttons on the error message. "Open Project again" and "Start with a new project"
Whichever button I click (and there is no visual feedback) Lazarus just terminates after about 8 seconds. It also terminates after about 8 seconds if I do nothing.
Sometimes, if I click on any of the pages (Ide, Todo List, Project inspector, etc) the words 'not responding' appear
It seems to want to start my previous Project but can't and doesn't get the command to start a new project.
As I said in my original post, everything was working fine till I allowed the machine to update Windows.