Documentation Center cannot be launched
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg114086] Documentation Center cannot be launched
- From: Ulf-Dietrich Braumann <braumann at uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:59:01 -0500 (EST)
- Reply-to: braumann at uni-leipzig.de
Hello, I suddenly have the surprising effect that pressing F1 or any other menu-based action to start the documentation center fails on my Win XP based v7.0.1 installation. In particular, traditional short help texts as can be obtained like e.g. ?Solve are no longer printed while the front end starts to hang. >From my Windows task manager I can see a couple of javaw.exe running residing within the Mathematica installation, I guess every try to launch the help system is launching another javaw, however, no help screen is opening. And, when I kill all those javaw-processes, the formerly hanging front end comes back to life and issues some more or less expected "LinkObject::linkd : Unable to communicate with closed link ..." error message, whereas the kernel is working completely unaffected from those troubles. I have tried reinstalling Mathematica 7 (admittedly without a clean uninstall before), but got no improvement at all. I also have manually emptied my Local Settings\Temp folder - no effect. Any help is highly appreciated, thanks in advance - Ulf-Dietrich