Oldnotdead 8 Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Has anyone been successful with windows 10? I had been happily using energia 15 on my laptop using Windows 7. I took the bait from Microsoft and installed windows 10. Everything I have tested so far is working okay. The only program that is not working is Energia 15. I then downloaded Energia 16, but no luck. When I try and open Energia, I Get the splash screen, then it freezes. After a long pause I get a windows message Quote Link to post Share on other sites
enl 227 Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 I have not tried Energia, but the test machine at work has had a number of issues with a variety of software. One of the students giuneapigged with Eclipse and had no end of trouble a few weeks ago, and ended up backing to win8. I don't know what the issue was, but I am not going to go to 10 for other reasons (license conditions among others) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fmilburn 446 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 I have been using Energia 16 and Windows 10 without a problem. In fact, certain things like selecting a new board and changing the serial port happen faster compared to Windows 8.1. abecedarian 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dubnet 238 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 @@enl I agree with you on the license issues. I feel that they have made a mistake in the direction they are taking Windows. If they don't do some signifcant backtracking perhaps we will look back at this time and say "That was the beginning of the end for Windows". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abecedarian 330 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Working fine here. Win10 Build 10532 (Insider Preview 2nd release after RTM). Energia's been working fine for me since I entered the Insider program, by the way. Errors I've had have been my own fault. I do, however, have Energia installed on a different hard drive though. My suggestion might be to open the ZIP file, then extract everything into a folder on hard drive. If you download the zip and open it in Windows File Explorer, you'll see a folder titled "energia-0101E0016" and nothing else: double-click that folder to open it. Then click the "Extract All" button in the ribbon menu, and extract them to something like "[drive]:\E16\" so that under "E16", you have the following files and folders in that directory so the path name is as short as possible: __MACOSX drivers examples hardware java lib reference tools cygiconv-2.dll cygwin1.dll energia.exe libiconv-2.dll libusb0.dll revisions.txt rxtxSerial.dllAlso, may not be related, but could be... what file system are you using where you're saving Energia? FAT32, exFAT, NTFS? And, do you have read/write/modify privilege to the folder you've extracted things to? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abecedarian 330 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 @@enl I agree with you on the license issues. I feel that they have made a mistake in the direction they are taking Windows. If they don't do some signifcant backtracking perhaps we will look back at this time and say "That was the beginning of the end for Windows".What licensing issues? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abecedarian 330 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Thanks in advance for help Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dubnet 238 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 @@abecedarian Google: Windows 10 eula issues Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abecedarian 330 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 @@abecedarian Google: Windows 10 eula issues@@dubnet Should start another topic in General or somewhere to discuss this? Shouldn't de-rail the OP's topic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dubnet 238 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 My apologies. Didn't intend to derail, just agreeing with the sentiment of @@enl post. Didn't intend to take it any farther than my original comment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oldnotdead 8 Posted September 12, 2015 Author Share Posted September 12, 2015 Thank you all for the comments and suggestion. Still no luck. Here is what I tried 1. deleted the two versions of Energia that I had previously downloaded. 2. Downloaded Energia 16 and extracted the zip file to the suggested folder Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chicken 630 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 I don't think the file system has anything to do with it, should be completely transparent to applications like Energia. I suspect a borked TI driver somewhere.. Or Java install. You could go through installed programs and uninstall/reinstall anything from TI as well as Java JRE. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abecedarian 330 Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 @@chicken file system permissions could have something to do with it, but apparently that's not the case since extracting the files to the folder should give proper permissions on that folder in the NTFS system, but it is worth checking that folder's properties to ensure the user has those permissions. TI drivers could be an issue but those should only be called when trying to upload a program to the MCU. Re: Java - Energia carries with it an embedded Java runtime (JRE) so that shouldn't be an issue either since that's instantiated only when starting the "energia.exe" program. My user permissions on my Energia install folder: @@Oldnotdead : Trying @@chicken suggestion of uninstalling everything TI may be something worth pursuing. Do you have a screen shot of the error window? Also, have you checked event viewer to see what might be happening? You said E15 didn't work under 7- "The only program that is not working is Energia 15." Rolling back to 7 will probably not change that, and even then E16 might not work either. If you can, maybe try to backup the Win10 install so you can re-install that if the following doesn't work: in Win10 go to "Settings | Update & Security | Recovery | Reset this PC" and choose "Remove everything", which will essentially perform a clean install of Win10 (hence why I suggested making a backup of the current config you could roll back to). You could try "Keep my files", but that will do like it says, and keep things that might be affecting your system. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oldnotdead 8 Posted September 13, 2015 Author Share Posted September 13, 2015 I tried to find all the files from TI and then deleted them. I Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abecedarian 330 Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 @@Oldnotdead A lot has changed from E12 to E16, besides the bug fixes additional boards have been added. Anyhow, what are the permissions for the user "Mickey"? I assume that's you?They should at least include "Read & Execute", "Read", "Write", and "Modify"; "List Folder Contents" should also be applied. Are you in the "Administrator" group on this computer? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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