FIRST Button on WindRiver not appearing
 

Let me start from the beginning, back in 2013 I accidentally forgot to uninstall WindRiver from the previous year before installing the 2013 version of WindRiver. I was able to fix it somehow(I don't remember how though) but whenever I tried to uninstall it through the Windows control panel, I would get error:NULL. What I did next this year was delete the WindRiver directory and the WindRiver folder found in C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Universal because that was a solution that another FIRST member found in this thread.

I then proceded to install WindRiver using both discs since the laptop I am using is running Windows 7. I did not open WindRiver between installing each disc. After I installed each disc, I then installed the mandatory C++ update or the workbench update. After doing this multiple times I have not been able to get the FIRST button to appear on the toolbar on the laptop even though I was able to get it on my desktop.

Re: FIRST Button on WindRiver not appearing
 

Ran into the same thing tonight. Install this. http://first.wpi.edu/FRC/c/Workbench...101rev3876.zip
Password: 3Zones2Goals1Alliance!

Re: FIRST Button on WindRiver not appearing
 

Thats the update I've been installing and the FIRST button doesn't show up. I get all of the WPILib files and the cRIO image but not the FIRST button. It works on my desktop but not on the laptop we use for programming.

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Last year we had more problems with this. There are half a dozen threads on chief delphi about the missing FIRST menu but I can't recall what fixed it for us.

I want to say it may have been a 32bit/64bit mismatch.

Are you running 64 bit or 32 bit?

When I setup a new computer today I only did the first disk. No LabView and then installed the update and all was well.

You might try deleting everything again. Run a registry cleaner like CCleaner and then do the install. Or go through the registry searching for Windriver and deleting entires associated with it and do the install again.

I'm sorry I couldn't be more help.

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That's ok. What I've found out though is that the FIRST menu is installed perfectly but it doesnt appear when I use the 2nd account named Team 263 on the laptop. It only appears on one account which is the driver account. It's a bit of an inconvenience but its fine. Thanks for your help and Good Luck!

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Figured this out, your post hinted the solution to me. If you go into your user profile (C:\Users\Username) and delete the .workbench* folder. Restart windriver and it will ask for your workspace again. Then it will recreate the folder and preferences and include the FIRST tab.

Re: FIRST Button on WindRiver not appearing
 

I deleted the .workbench* folder but it didn't work for me. I even reinstalled the Workbench update again and it still didn't work. But just for the heck of it, I decided to install the Workbench update again differently and this time it worked. I don't know if it is related but here it is. Instead of double clicking the workbench update exe, I opened an elevated CMD and then just run the workbench update there. Then it worked. The "First" menu showed up and everything is fine now.