From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unable to run 64-bit GNU Emacs 25.3 on Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:47:32 +0300 Message-ID: <83poamheqz.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505836379 21313 195.159.176.226 (19 Sep 2017 15:52:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:52:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 19 17:52:54 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1duKpQ-0005Am-0k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:52:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duKpX-00089S-39 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:52:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54097) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duKkS-0004dX-Lt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:47:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duKkR-0002Ro-N5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:47:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35224) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duKkR-0002Rg-Jy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1630 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1duKkR-0006Zd-18 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:47:43 -0400 In-reply-to: (Matt.Kraai@abbott.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114315 Archived-At: > From: "Kraai, Matthew" > Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:45:57 +0000 > > After unpacking https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-25.3-x86_64.zip using Info-ZIP's UnZip 6.00 on a system running Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1, nothing happens when I run runemacs.exe. I've tried running it from Windows Explorer, a Command Prompt window, and a Git Bash window. I've checked the signature of the .ZIP file using the key whose fingerprint is 8493 0FFB 79B6 45F7 DEA2 9AD0 AC6D D3FF D1D0 46BD. > > When I perform the same steps using either https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-25.2-x86_64.zip or https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-25.3-i686.zip, Emacs starts successfully. Please report this as a bug, this list is not exactly optimal to discuss such problems. But as long as I have your attention: does the Windows Event Viewer show something about the problem under Applications?