<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Right, working.<br><br></div>I copied and renamed the qgis.bat.tmpl file as qgis.bat and added<br>PATH %systemroot%\system32; %systemroot%; %systemroot%\system32\wbem<br></div>after the first @ECHO off line. (thanks M H , Polygeo and underdark for your sharing on this)<br><br></div>Then ran the new qgis.bat from C:><br><br></div>This works but is a bit of longhand. I tried creating a shortcut on my taskbar but it gives the same lost in time - lost in space sort of response I was getting earlier...<br><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Chris Berens, GISc<br></div><div><a href="http://www.mapland.co.za" target="_blank">www.mapland.co.za</a><br></div><div>+27 (0)82 567 9322<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 July 2016 at 11:04, Chris Berens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@mapland.co.za" target="_blank">chris@mapland.co.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>So I _can_ see my son has been loading JDK and Notepad++ (!) and now I can't open Essen or Lyon. The files they call out for are there but they are not talking.<br><br></div>There is some chat about this out there, mostly concerning the bin\qgis.dat file. In Lyon mine looks like this:<br>@echo off<br>call "%~dp0\o4w_env.bat"<br>@echo off<br>path %OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\bin;%PATH%<br>set QGIS_PREFIX_PATH=%OSGEO4W_ROOT:\=/%/apps/qgis<br>set GDAL_FILENAME_IS_UTF8=YES<br>rem Set VSI cache to be used as buffer, see #6448<br>set VSI_CACHE=TRUE<br>set VSI_CACHE_SIZE=1000000<br>set QT_PLUGIN_PATH=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\qtplugins;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qt4\plugins<br>start "QGIS" /B "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\bin\qgis-bin.exe %*<br><br></div>There is no Essen\bin\qgis.dat file. Even after uninstalling C++ runtime, Essen, reinstall C++, Essen. Therefore no icons in Start or Desktop?<br><br></div>Apologies for posting this here if it does not relate to QGIS users. Please suggest fora as indicated.<br><br><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Chris Berens, GISc<br></div><div><a href="http://www.mapland.co.za" target="_blank">www.mapland.co.za</a><br></div><div><a href="tel:%2B27%20%280%2982%20567%209322" value="+27825679322" target="_blank">+27 (0)82 567 9322</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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