Installation and Licensing

[rfjhh]

I'm using ISE Design Suite 14.1 (windows 7, 32 bit) and an error appears:

"Environment variable 'TEMP' not defined or points at a non-existant directory or a non-writable directory. Please define it to a directory location for temporary files."

I've created C:\TEMP directory but the problem still exists.

What can I do?

[bwiec]

Have you actually created an environment variable to point to that directory?

[rfjhh]

Non. How can I do it??

[bwiec]

First google result:

http://www.itechtalk.com/thread3595.html

You may want to check first... you likely already have TEMP and TMP variables, but they may not be pointing to a good location that you're trying to accomplish.

[rfjhh]

Yes, I have already TEMP and TMP variables and they point to "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp" as indicated in the tutorial "How to Add, Remove or Edit Environment variables in Windows 7?", so I think I havo to do something in ISE.

[rfjhh]

Do you have a chat service or something like that in order to get a faster response?

[graces]

Try cleanup project files and rerun.

This could be an occasional issue.

[rfjhh · Accepted solution]

The problem has been fixed. Kaspersky had sent two files in quarentine. Yesterday they was returned to be restored and ISE was started to run well.

Thanks

[ghs]

Could you tell us which files Kaspersky quarantined?

We are having the same problem, and we're running Kaspersky KES8 but I am not seeing anything in the quarantine.

[deanmiller]

This has been plaguing me for come time, but I think I have found the cause and the solution.

The environment I have is Windows XP SP3. I run Kaspersky AV but do not believe that is at all involved in the matter.

I have been running into this during implementation using ISE 13.4.  Sometimes ISE would stop in translate, sometimes it would stop in place & route.  And sometimes it would (after rebooting the machine) run to completion.

One thing that seemed to help for a week or so was to run regedit and in

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

change forceguest to 0.

But today that failed to help.  forceguest was 0 but I simply could not run ISE to completion.

What did seem to solve it was to run a registry cleaner (I use and recommend Advanced System Optimizer 3 Registry Cleaner from SysTweak.  It's not free but I believe you get what you pay for.)  Make sure that all of the registry scan settings are turned on, particularly "Deep Scan."  This found some problems involving C:\temp!  After cleaning the registry the problem (at least for now) went away.

I also have a /system/ environment variable TEMP = C:\TEMP.

Hope this helps!