qt crashes on opening

Question

I am trying to get qt set up on my computer to make a gui for a c++ program. I installed it with no issues but it will not open. I open qt community an it opens a plugin loader and closes. Watching it from task manager it has multiple cmd sub processes open, a clangbackend.exe then a windows problem reporting processes starts and everything closes. I've tried rebooting and reinstalling. I'm on windows.

Answer 1

Original Thread

Try running this command in cmd.exe (command prompt):

c:\pathto\qtcreator -noload Welcome -noload QmlDesigner -noload QmlProfiler

ps: replace pathto with the path to the qt creator bin. ex = if your path to qt creator bin is, C://Program Files/Qt/Tools/QtCreator/bin, so the command looks like,

c:\Program Files\Qt\Tools\QtCreator\bin\qtcreator -noload Welcome -noload QmlDesigner -noload QmlProfiler

If this opens Qt Creator, go to help menu->About Plugins and disable "Welcome" permanantly.

If the solution above doesn't work try disabling your antivirus software like McAffee.