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I found a problem with Wallpaper Slideshow Pro that was a real PITA. I have several groups assigned to different folder slideshows. All worked fine until I removed one folder slideshow and added a new one. I forgot to assign a group to the new folder slideshow. When I clicked OK to exit the Options window I received an error "Encountered an improper argument". I was unable to enter the Settings dialog window. The slideshow icon indicated "Busy". I killed the process and restarted the program...same error. I shut down and restarted the program...same error.

Before uninstalling/reinstalling the application i found the configuration file wallpapersspro.wgs in the \users\username\WallpaperSSPro directory and removed all Groups information and restarted the program. I added back the groups and assigned each folder slideshow to a group as I had originally done. All seems to be working properly now, but this kind of error should not result in such a problem. Perhaps a notification should pop-up if a slideshow is added without a group assigned.

We all have better things to do than troubleshoot odd bugs such as this.

Hello,
the error "Encountered an improper argument" means that there was an unpredictable error somewhere in the code. The condition of images without a group assigned is of course handled but it is possible that a combination of factors caused that error. Unfortunately the causes of this kind of errors are very hard to find since I am not always able to reproduce them. If you know how to reproduce that error it would greatly help to fix it.

Apparently, I am doing something wrong when I change the folder to be used for a particular group.

The same error occurred on a second PC that has Wallpaper SS Pro installed. I have four groups (the current group that I have selected to be active is Tmp group). In the main configuration screen I highlight the folder (which is the one Tmp is assigned to) and click Remove. I then Add a different folder and assign the Tmp group to that folder listing. When I exit the configuration screen I get the error "Encountered an improper argument error". I have to go into the wallpapersspro.wgs configuration file and delete all items related to Groups. When I restart Wallpaper SS Pro and add the groups back again all works fine.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your attention to this problem.

You are nothing wrong, it should work. I tried several times to do the same operations but unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce the error.
Can you send me the file wallpapersspro.wgs before you do those operation and after them (when WallpaperSS starts to give you that error) ?
Using your setting files it should be easier to find what is causing that error.

I tried to upload the configuration files but I get the error message "The extension is not allowed." I tried using .txt and other extensions, but I get the same error.

Attached files should be compressed in a zip or rar archive. Anyway I enabled plain text attachments so now it should work.

I have attached a ZIP file containing the config file when I received the error (wallpapersspro-org.wgs) and the file after I removed the Groups entries (wallpapersspro.wgs).

The items I removed from the original config file were:
NumGroups=5

GroupName0=Tmp
GroupName1=Tmp2
GroupName2=Wst
GroupName3=Sample1
GroupName4=Sample2

I did add back some Groups in the current configuration file.

I appreciate your assistance with this problem.

Thank you very much for the settings file.
I think I found the cause of the problem, a file scan was not performed when one or more groups are changed in the files list. Please download and install this WallpaperSS pro version:
http://www.gphotoshow.com/files/wpsprosetup_3421.exe

Let me know how it works now.