Vassal 3.2.17 will not start

Technical Support & Bugs
#1

I need some expert help to get Vassal 3.2.17 to run on my machine. I am using Windows 10, and I have Java 8.0.2510.8.

Until recently, Vassal 3.2.17 has been working fine on my machine. The other day, I ran the disk cleanup utility on Bitdefender and after that 3.2.17 would no longer run. I would click the Vassal.exe or shortcut and nothing would happen. No error messages would appear; the program would not start then crash; nothing happens. I am sure I “cleaned” something important, so I tried uninstalling and reinstalling 3.2.17, but ended up with the same result. No activity of any kind. I am, however, able to run Vassal 3.3.2 just fine. Unfortunately, I need 3.2.17 to run one of the modules that I play regularly.

I am at a loss on what steps to take to try to get the program to run again, and I would gladly appreciate any advice or thoughts on what I can try to do to get the earlier version of Vassal to operate again.

Thank you in advance for your help.

#2

Did you try reinstalling Java? And make sure your antivirus isn’t silently quarantining java.exe or javaw.exe, too.

#3

Yup, that was it! Something went askew with Java, which had been fine since then. Thanks so much for the helpful pointer. Much appreciated : )