I am unable to open Local by flywheel

Issue Summary

Every time I try to click to open Local nothing happens.

Troubleshooting Questions && Replication

I’m not exactly sure what has caused it to stop working so im not sure if there is a good way to replicate it, I’m sure its nothing to do with local but maybe something is holding it up? I just does not open when clicked.

  1. Its not in the taskbar
  2. No window
  3. It (does) show up in my task manager
  4. Nothing running in Virtual Box.
  5. I have Norton (But issues persisted after uninstallation of Norton)
  6. I have turned off all windows defender settings and still no luck.
  7. I have restarted the program multiple times, with fresh installs also.
  8. This has been an ongoing issue for months now for me with no luck.

System Details

Most Recent Version of Virtual box and Local have been downloaded and installed multiple times. Most recent install is 4/11/2021

Machine Specs:
Windows 10 Pro
Version: 1909
OS Build: 18363.1440

I have listed it below and attached it to the ticket.
local-lightning.log (5.0 KB)

{"thread":"main","class":"addIpcAsyncListener","stringifiedCallback":"e=>this.push(e)","level":"warn","message":"Duplicate callback appears to be getting added to devkit:push","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.390Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","message":"Add-on not enabled: local-addon-notes","level":"info","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.522Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Loading Add-on: %%userDataPath%%\\lightning-services\\php-7.4.1+8\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.523Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Successfully Loaded Add-on: %%userDataPath%%\\lightning-services\\php-7.4.1+8\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.553Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Loading Add-on: %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\mailhog-1.0.0+3\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.554Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Successfully Loaded Add-on: %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\mailhog-1.0.0+3\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.556Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Loading Add-on: %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\mariadb-10.4.10+4\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.556Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Successfully Loaded Add-on: %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\mariadb-10.4.10+4\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.586Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Loading Add-on: %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\mysql-8.0.16+5\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.587Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Successfully Loaded Add-on: %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\mysql-8.0.16+5\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.617Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Loading Add-on: %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\nginx-1.16.0+5\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.618Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Successfully Loaded Add-on: %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\nginx-1.16.0+5\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.646Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Loading Add-on: %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\php-7.3.5+10\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.647Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Successfully Loaded Add-on: %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\php-7.3.5+10\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.679Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Loading Add-on: %%appPath%%\\node_modules\\@getflywheel\\local-addon-broken-link-checker\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.679Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","level":"info","message":"Successfully Loaded Add-on: %%appPath%%\\node_modules\\@getflywheel\\local-addon-broken-link-checker\\lib\\main.js","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.681Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","message":"Add-on does not have \"productName\" specified in package.json: %%appPath%%\\node_modules\\@getflywheel\\local-browsersync\\package.json","level":"info","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.681Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","message":"Add-on does not have \"productName\" specified in package.json: %%appPath%%\\node_modules\\@getflywheel\\local-browsersync-client\\package.json","level":"info","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.681Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","message":"Add-on does not have \"productName\" specified in package.json: %%appPath%%\\node_modules\\@getflywheel\\local-components\\package.json","level":"info","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.681Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","message":"Add-on does not have \"productName\" specified in package.json: %%appPath%%\\node_modules\\@getflywheel\\localcert\\package.json","level":"info","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.682Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","message":"Add-on does not have \"productName\" specified in package.json: %%appPath%%\\node_modules\\@getflywheel\\localtunnel\\package.json","level":"info","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.682Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","message":"Add-on does not have \"productName\" specified in package.json: %%appPath%%\\node_modules\\@getflywheel\\memoize-one-ts\\package.json","level":"info","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.682Z"}
{"thread":"main","class":"AddonLoaderService","message":"Add-on does not have \"main\" or \"renderer\" specified in package.json: %%appPath%%\\node_modules\\@getflywheel\\replacestream\\package.json","level":"info","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.683Z"}
{"thread":"main","reason":{},"p":{},"level":"warn","message":"Unhandled Rejection.","timestamp":"2021-04-11T20:05:52.860Z"}

Hey @byronwade, Welcome to the Local Community Forums!

The latest versions of Local (above 5.x) don’t need VirtualBox, so I don’t think that plays into this issue.

Have you been using Local before and this is this a new issue, or is this the first time you are setting Local up on this computer?

I have heard at least on other topic in the forums mention an issue with Windows Pro:

In that thread, one of the workarounds was to manually downgrade to the 5.6.10 version of Local.

Hi @ben.turner,
I noticed that after typing up my message lol. Yeah I doubt Virtual box is the issue at all.

I have been using local for about a year then stopped programming and installed the new version around December time and noticed that it never opened after that, and after trying a bunch of stuff I eventually gave up. I just recently tried again and downgraded to version 5.6.6 of local and it works again for whatever reason. However, I’ve been using windows pro ever since it came out, so maybe one of the newer versions of windows pro is the culprit?

However, using and older version of local is not what I want obviously. Thankfully I can still program my website though.

I’m not sure what WMIC is, ill look into it and see what significant it might have.

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