Important: Run CW10 in Windows 7 as Administrator

[mykepredko]

I've just discovered from my FAE that if you want to run CW10 under Windows 7 you MUST do it as "Administrator". 

For most people, this means that instead of left clicking "CodeWarrior" from the Start Menu, you must right click it and then click on "Run as administrator". 

If you don't do this, or if you are not running as administrator, when you start up CodeWarrior, it will come up as "eclipse Ganymede" and when you click on "About" in "Help", it will come up as "Ganymede" instead of CodeWarrior.  Most importantly, if you click on "Plug-in Details", you won't get the MQX plug in. 

Thanx for Derrick Klotz for pointing this out.

myke

[admin]

CW10 out of box does not require the elevation usually, but if you update Eclipse, or install additional plugins using the Update facility, then CW10 gets really confused. I guess the eclipse configuration gets corrupted in the home directory of the user (located in Users/user/.eclipse) and CW10 cannot load its own plugins anymore located and configured in the Program Files.

Also if the very first run was under elevated rights (that is Run As Administrator), then CW uses the Program files to keep the runtime (volatile) configuration. This directory is read-only for regular users, so CW cannot write to that configuration directory and fails to load its own Eclipse plugins.

So, 1) Run CW10 as usual user first time and 2) never update Eclipse, or add new plugins using Eclipse/Update

If you need Subclipse, for instance, you probably better unzip the site directly into CW, rather than update Eclipse from remote location.

[mykepredko]

Hi Nikoaich,

So adding MQX (which has a plug-in) caused the problem (this was a brand-new PC and CW was the first instance of Eclipse)?

I seem to be running ok now (with the exception of the assert issue I'm going to try out the suggested fix to) as long as I run as administrator. 

Thanx for the explanation and the suggestion for adding new plug-ins in the future.

myke

[pgo]

Dear mykepredko,

I've used CW10 with windows 7 32-bit without any problems.  Does this limitation apply only to Windows 7 64-bit?

bye

[mykepredko]

Interesting.  I'm running Win 7 32bit as well.  I know that for Win 7 64bit you have to run as admin as well. 

Are you logging on to the machine with an account that is set up as Admin?

myke

[pgo]

Dear mykepredko,

That is quite likely.  I didn't set up the machine account so I'm unsure if it has Admin priviledges.

I know that I get various confirmations required when changing system settings if that means anything

bye