[SOLVED] cannot view serial monitor any longer

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#1

I can no longer view the serial monitor, the window seems to exist but when I click on it from the taskbar nothing happens. I have installed the latest version of Java and reinstalled the Arduino IDE.

There was a similar problem here but no solution was posted:
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=147645.0

JAVA_HOME is in my program files...

#2
  1. Locate the preferences.txt file (the path is shown in the "Preferences" window)
  2. Exit the IDE,
  3. search for "last.serial"
  4. set it to something like: last.serial.location=0,0,500,500
  5. restart the IDE

Make sure those numbers are something reasonable. That should put it in the upper left corner if I remember correctly.

#3

Thanks so much, this was driving me crazy!

#4