RE: Octave does not start

Problem solved, by installing the latest 6.3.1 build
Thanks a lot for your help

>> Hi Markus,
>>
>> Here is small recap of the current status, still the GUI does not show:
>>
>> I uninstalled Octave 6.2.0, and deleted all remaining files and rebooted the computer.
>> I downloaded the installer for Octave 6.3.0 and installed this version (installation for all users)

Could you please also check with a nightly build of Octave 6.3.1 from octave.space? You can download installers for those from here:
https://buildbot.octave.space/#/download
I just installed the 6.3.1 version (latest build ) and it does the trick. GUI now runs  without a problem.
I don't know what the problem was, but it seems to be solved now.
>> I do have admin rights on my machine.
>> For antivirus I use default windows defender. I tried all steps below with and without deactivating windows defender.
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>> - I can run a general VBA scrip like  "hello world", I can also run this script from the Octave directory : C:\Program Files\GNU Octave\Octave-6.3.0
>> - When I start the GUI from the start menu shortcut, nothing happens
>> - When I start the GUI from the start menu shortcut as administrator, I get a pop-up from windows to allow execution of the octave.vbs --gui script. After I allow execution, nothing happends
>> - When I run Octave.bat in command window, this runs well (see attached screenshot), I can create variables etc in command line
>> - When I use CMD to run the octave.vbs script It seems to run the script (but GUI does not open). To test I added a line at the end of the script to show GUI MODE, and I get proper output.
>> - When I open Octave CLI from the start menu a command window opens with only a blinking cursor. (see attached screenshot) in the title balk it mentions "Octave-gui.exe"
>> - Using CMD I search for GNU file see attached screenshot for returned info. (I also attached the content of the file, changed the extension to .txt to allow transfer)
>
>Thanks for that.
>The fifth column of the output for "dir /x" shows the short file name corresponding to each file or folder if they are available. (That would be something like "GNUOCT~1".) It looks like that column is empty for you. That >probably means that short file names have been disabled for that partition.
>Could you please try and change the installation directory to a path that doesn't contain spaces? E.g., "C:\Octave".
>Does that allow the GUI to start?
No it did not solve the issue I tried C:\apps and C:\Temp but same results
>>
>> Still no clue as to why the GUI does not show
>>
>> Best regards,
>> David


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