Wind River Workbench Not Loading

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by gvarndell

There should be a directory named 'uninstaller' under c:\WindRiver.
Inside, should be 3 to 5 other directories that contain individual uninstallers (compiler, vxworks, board support, etc.).
You need to run each, in no particular order.

AFAIK, Workbench doesn't infest the registry, so you shouldn't need to worry about that.

Look in c:\Documents and Settings\<your username>.
If there are any files or directories that are obviously Workbench related, delete them.
Look for 'workbench*', 'wr*', etc..

Finally, delete c:\WindRiver.

Note that it is safe to just skip the uninstallers and blow away c:\windriver, but people tend not to believe me when I tell them that.

It works now.

I originally tried deleting the entire windriver directory, but it wouldn't let me trash everything. I had read about the uninstaller directory earlier, but I couldn't find it where the resource told me it would be - a Windows search dug deeper to locate it. I ran those, and just for fun, I then renamed my computer before reinstalling, based on a control system forums post detailing a related Wind River problem. "Dell" was a rather lame name, anyway .

Back up and running - why they bury the uninstalls so deeply, I'll never understand. Thanks for setting me down the correct path.