Hi All! +Karma to the developers who keep making Arduino bigger and better.
I need some advice.
I just tried to update to v1.8.7 to replace a good installation of v1.8.5 that I have used since Jan/2018. No joy!
The v1.8.7 installer reported success but the IDE would not run past the splash screen and ended without displaying any error messages. I uninstalled and reinstalled several times, downloaded and installed a fresh copy, ditto, restarted after a fresh installation, ditto, downloaded and installed v1.8.6, ditto, and finally reinstalled v1.8.5 to get Arduino IDE running just fine again.
Can anyone help me troubleshoot the v1.8.7 installation? Here are some of my system particulars:
* Windows VISTA Home Premium, 64-bit, SP2
Intel Core Duo CPU, E7000 @2.66GHz, 4GB RAM
* Arduino IDE installed at \Program Files (x86)\Arduino\
* Arduino sketches and libraries installed at \Documents\Arduino\
* Java on system is (older) Java 7 Update 5 (7.0.5.0),
but I see that Arduino v1.8.5 packs its own (later) version of Java
Thanks for your time to consider and answer.
Steve