Can't initiate the application

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by rmcjband...@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2015 at 6:06

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Thanks for telling us about this. However, I'm not really sure which tool it is 
you are trying to start? Are you referring to the compomics-utilities demo? If 
so, how are you trying to start the tool? As written in the Download section we 
strongly recommend using Maven for this purpose.

Also note that compomics-utilities is mainly a backend library for developers. 
If you're not a developer, I'd recommend rather looking at our more end user 
oriented projects like SearchGUI (http://searchgui.googlecode.com) and 
PeptideShaker (http://peptide-shaker.googlecode.com).

Original comment by harald.b...@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2015 at 8:08

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I was trying to initiate the SearchGUI-1.30.1.jar file and the 
PeptideShaker-0.41.1.jar files, unfortunately for both applications ended up 
without initiating them properly giving following log file,

Strtup log file

"Memory settings read from the user preferences: 3072
args: 
original java.home: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_45\bin\
new java.home: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_45\bin\

Command line: 
"C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_45\bin\java" 
-splash:resources\conf\peptide-shaker-splash.png -Xms128M -Xmx3072M -cp 
"E:\Research Proposal\Proteomis\Bioinformatics for proteomics\Software 
collection\PeptideShaker-0.41.1\PeptideShaker-0.41.1\PeptideShaker-0.41.1.jar" 
eu.isas.peptideshaker.gui.PeptideShakerGUI 
Process exitValue: 1"

My computer operating system is Windows 7, 32 bit and the Java version is 
"1.8.0_45-b15" and probably the 32 bit, because i have installed 32 bit version 
of the Java application in to the OS.

Please be kind enough to be help in this cause.

Thanking you

Original comment by rmcjband...@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2015 at 9:39

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The problem is that you are trying to use more memory than a 32 bit system is 
able to. 32 bit systems can use maximum 2 GB of memory, while you're trying to 
start the tools with 3 GB.

Could you try deleting the file userpreferences.cup located in a folder called 
".compomics", which you should find in your user home folder (usually in 
"C:\Users\"your user name"\). And then try starting the tools again.

If it still does not work you can try setting the memory manually. Please see 
http://code.google.com/p/peptide-shaker/issues/detail?id=87#c1 for more details.

Original comment by harald.b...@gmail.com on 12 Jul 2015 at 11:39