Arduino IDE., starts: shows the usual Arduino blue panel; hangs for about 60 seconds then disappears leaving a warning box that states "An error occurred while starting the application".
I have been running the Arduino IDE., for some years now quite successfully until yesterday when my Windows system was updated. Unfortunately System Restore Protection was switched off and not by me.
Has anybody got the methodology and or knowledge to enable me to run this program please. Downloading a completely fresh system download has no effect, ie., it still will not run and provides the self same warning box.
I had to "Troubleshoot compatibility" to get Windows to run it as a "Windows 8" compatible. I right-clicked on the Arduino program icon (which I have on my Desktop) and selected "Troubleshoot compatibility" from the context menu and let Windows do it's thing (very slow). You might save time by going directly to the program "Properties" and then to the "Compatibility" tab.
I runs real slow, but that might be my old laptop. I don't know if it's faster on an Win XP, and I already had 8.1 when I installed the IDE.
Many thanks for your reply.
I had already done what you say you did to get it working and since receiving your reply I have redone that but it simply does not work it simply starts; hangs for almost exactly 1 minute and then retires from the screen.
Do you have Jarva in use?, 'cause I'm wondering whether that could be the problem. If I new how I would disable it but I can't find a way other than in Explorer to do that.
Fortunately Arduino IDE., runs on my old office Dell but that's only got 750 Mb of memory and its an absolute y-a-w-n as it is running on Vista.
I had to "Troubleshoot compatibility" to get Windows
Anthony
Hi You lucky lucky one. Why O' Why can't I get it running as it has done for years and years until one day Bill Gates cronies and his Jarva mates at Oracle got their hands on Windows 8 Updates. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I have done everything I can possibly think of doing from clearing out the computer of all Arduino & Java information and programs and starting again and again and again down loading their latest counterparts; but all are still recalicitrant nauty little boys.
I've switched off Windows Firewall, Windows Smart Screen, Have got windows to accept Arduino as a good mate but now I am once more at the very end of my teather. Can't be just me suffering this problem surely, can it?
I do have Java running. It appears to run in tangent with the Arduino IDE. Before I launch Arduino, Java is absent. But it is running when the Arduino IDE is running.
I stuck with Win 7Pro when I bought my latest laptop. Win8 just too clown-like for me. Things popping in & out & off the sides & stuff. Like trying to work on a video game.