My student encountered this message. He tried to uninstall and reinstall KNIME but it would not let him.
This is his message: “my Knime application was working yesterday 11/12 when I was working on my project, however when I tried to open it today I got this error message and I am not sure how to solve this issue. When I tried to uninstall Knime and reinstall it, it would not let me.”
I would suggest to download the ZIP archive version of KNIME and extract it to C:\ while we figure out what is going on with the installation. If this works, it’s likely that there is an issue with the installer/installation but not KNIME itself on the machine.
I downloaded the zip file and extracted the files, It then allowed me to open Knime and said I needed to add it as an exception for my window security to allow it to open/run. Which I did
After saying yes it opened and then I put the knime application on my homescreen from the zip file and tried to open Knime again and got the original error message I started with. It is not allowing me to open it again
It does however open this when I try to go back into the zip file and click on the knime icon, which is now gone and left is a cog icon with the word knime.
Is he moving the .exe file to his homescreen? If so, this could cause this error. This way the .exe will not be in the same repo as the dependecies. Could you ask him instead to create a shortcut by right clickins on the exe file, and say “create shortcut”? Then move this shortcut to where he wants it and try again.