HaloGrunt88

Thanks to both of you. I don't know how I overlooked the definition of Plugin INIs. I had read the INI Tweaks escription.

What is the difference between Ini Files and Ini Tweaks in the Mod Information Window? My understanding from reading STEP, reading various posts, and watching videos is that they both modify (add to, subtract from, or overwrite the particular entry only) ini files with lower priority in the left pane. The only difference that I can see is that Ini Tweaks are toggleable within a particular mod and can therefore be deactivated even if the mod is active, while Ini Files will always be active if the mod is active. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance for the help.

There was one around that time, but it was a definitions update. I uninstalled it anyway, but no change. I played around with it some more and got it to start by deleting my categories.dat file. The only thing I can figure is that it somehow got corrupted. I have since rebuilt my categories and am in the process of reassigning all of my mods.

I have been running MO since the summer without any problems until yesterday and now I am having the same issue as the OP. I did a fresh reinstall of MO and it opened fine. After I closed it, I restored my profiles, mods, and downloads folders. It would not start; it just hung on the splash screen. After playing around with everything I was able to rule out my profiles and my downloads. MO would load with some mods, but hangs again at around 20 mods. I also tried installing MO on a different hard drive. I had the same results. This started yesterday. I have not installed any new programs in 8 days. The only mod I downloaded yesterday was Ghosu - Horker Weapon Pack. There were no files downloading. Skyrim is my only game that uses MO. I followed STEP to setup up MO. When it hangs MO sits at 17% Proc and 47,348K Memory. I have let it sit like that for several hours without change.