# Local Flywheel Does Not Open

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/local-flywheel-does-not-open/3912>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 20, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-flywheel-does-not-open/3912 "2017-11-20T14:20:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![MidnightMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MidnightMonkey](https://community.localwp.com/u/MidnightMonkey)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-flywheel-does-not-open/3912/1 "2017-11-20T14:20:26Z")

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Hi Everyone

So i have the weirdest problem, i have been using Local Flywheel for about two months and I love it, haven’t had any issues until last week. Where all of a sudden it does not open, it open the icon on my taskbar but when i click on it or hover over it it doesn’t open?

I have un0installed and re-installed

 ![Screenshot](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/lwpforums/original/2X/4/4dff36cfc9e6aa40b27430e0099ba93015b49921.jpg)

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**Author:** ![clay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/clay/32/8248_2.png) [@clay](https://community.localwp.com/u/clay)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-flywheel-does-not-open/3912/2 "2017-11-20T18:08:14Z")

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Hi @MidnightMonkey,

My guess is that the window is hidden off-screen somewhere.

Can you please try the solutions in this article? [https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/bring-misplaced-off-screen-windows-back-to-your-desktop-keyboard-trick/](https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/bring-misplaced-off-screen-windows-back-to-your-desktop-keyboard-trick/)

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**Author:** ![MidnightMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MidnightMonkey](https://community.localwp.com/u/MidnightMonkey)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 5:05am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-flywheel-does-not-open/3912/3 "2017-11-21T05:05:34Z")

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Clay you are a Legend. Thank you problem is resolved 🙂 can finally open it

So i sit on a new problem unfortunately now, before i ran into these issues I was busy developing about 5 sites with Local Flywheel, I obviously had to uninstall and re-install ect

Now none of my old sites want to start up, I can add new sites but the older ones are stuck at “starting” before i unstalled ect I made a copy of Local sites?

any pointers

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**Author:** ![clay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/clay/32/8248_2.png) [@clay](https://community.localwp.com/u/clay)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-flywheel-does-not-open/3912/4 "2017-11-28T18:00:27Z")

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Hi @MidnightMonkey,

Sorry for the delay getting back to you on this!

I’m glad that was the problem 🙂

Regarding restoring your existing Local sites, here’s the best way to solve that: [How can I restore a site from a Local site folder?](https://local.getflywheel.com/community/t/how-can-i-restore-a-site-from-a-local-site-folder/1791/1)

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://community.localwp.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/local-flywheel-does-not-open/3912/5 "2020-08-25T18:33:09Z")

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