Netbeans 7.2 not starting

Question

I recently installed Netbeans 7.2 beta and it worked fine. Then I installed Netbeans 7.2 final release on top of beta and during the installation, Netbeans 7.1 and Netbeans 7.12 were there. Now when I launch Netbeans, it does not go beyond "loading modules" stage. Simply the Netbeans screen disappear few seconds after the launch. Then I did the following.

• Uninstalled all the Netbeans versions and re-installed Netbeans 7.2
• Deleted AppData/Netbeans folder
• Deleted User/.nbi folder
• Searched the registry and deleted Netbeans related entries. (But only one entry was found)
• Deleted Netbeans Folder in Program Files folder.
• Uninstalled and Re-installed in a separate drive.
• Uninstalled and Re-installed under another user account.

None of the above worked, the only thing I did not try was to re-install the Windows XP operating system.

It there any option to try before re-installing the operating system?

Answer 1

I was having the same problem .... with netbeans 7.2 ,go to user/appdata/roaming/7.2/modules/ and delete all the jar files except docs,ext,locale folders ... and start the ide again... basically the problem betides when u update the ide after update when u start the ide it stuck to the loading module phase.

Answer 2

That's some stability issue with NetBeans 7.2

Just Kill and Restart the IDE and it should be fine.

Answer 3

First of all, you need to check proper version of JDK is installed. Netbeans 7.2 requires JDK 1.7, not 1.8.
You can check {Netbeans Install Path}/etc/netbeans.conf. There find netbeans_jdkhome and its value. Make sure you install JDK1.7 and this line netbeans_jdkhome="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_25" for example.
If not, change the value to proper installation path.

Answer 4

I had the same problem, make sure you have the required JDK version configured during the installation process.

Answer 5

First tried everything to no avail, finally I had to uninstall NetBeans 7, then install NetBeans 8, which also aligned with my JDK 8. This resolved the issue for me. Hope this helps others.