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martin

2024-06-13

Thanks for sharing your solution.

lew-dawg

2024-06-11 21:52

For anybody else who experiences this issue I have solved the problem.

The reg edit GPO was applying the following REG_SZ items
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize\AppsUseLightTheme
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize\SystemUsesLightTheme

Both of these items are supposed to be DWORD, not Reg_SZ.

Corrected this & now WinSCP opens as expected. Hopefully this helps someone else out there.

lew-dawg

2024-06-11 15:46

Using ProcMon I can see when this regkey is accessed when opening WinSCP (screenshots attached).

This regkey
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize\AppsUseLightTheme
is altered via GroupPolicy to this value, if that's of any help to the troubleshooting.