mapbox/tilemill — Issue #1205: UAV blocks startup on Windows 8 dev preview
Author: springmeyer
Created: 2012-01-23 19:37:11+00:00
State: open
Labels: windows

If you workaround #1175 by manually finding the `run-tilemill.bat` double clicking still does not work.

It seems that the bat runs and tilemill partially starts before exiting. Sometimes the logs show partial server start and the console windows stays open (after minimizing). Sometimes the console window immediately closes.

Running from the command line works just fine.

It appears that the default UAV controls must be suppressing an error and silencing the process. Running the .bat as an admin gives some evidence of this with a pop up of: