What you see?
CPN IDE starts, but the front-end gets stuck in the splash screen. The back-end does start, which is shown by the Command Prompt where several lines are written to, but the splash screen does not go away.
What happens?
The front-end needs to connect to the back-end, but cannot find whether a back-end is running. The front-end gets stuck in finding the back-end.
What is the problem?
Windows cannot execute the WMIC.exe executable which is required by the front-end to find the back-end, because Windows cannot find this executable.
How to solve?
Add the C:\Windows\System32\wbem folder to your PATH variable, as this is the folder that contains the WMIC.exe executable. This can be done as follows:
- Select the Windows Start Menu in the bottom left corner and type “env”. Then select the “Edit the system environment variables” item. A System Properties dialog will pop up.
- Select the Environment Variables… button below. An Enviroment Variables dialog will pop up.
- Select the Path variable for your user and select the Edit… button. An Edit environment dialog will pop up.
- Select the New button and enter C:\Windows\System32\wbem.
- Select the OK button for all three dialogs.
Then run CPN IDE again.
Windows should now be able to execute the WMIC.exe executable, which allows the front-end to find the back-end, after which the front-end will connect to the back-end, the splash screen disappears and CPN IDE’s main window appears.