<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Bisq simply doesn't open on windows. You click the icon, nothing happens.</p>
<p>This is an issue to help others solve the problem as we had users who found how to fix it and we probably should use this as the starting point for a bug fix</p>
<h4>Version</h4>
<p>all (known the start on 1.7)</p>
<h3>Steps to reproduce</h3>
<p>Have Special chara</p>
<ol>
<li>Install bisq</li>
<li>Have special characters in your username, and thus the bisq path on Windows</li>
<li>try to open Bisq</li>
<li>sit and stare and the empty screen. No error messages nothing happens</li>
</ol>
<h3>Expected behaviour</h3>
<p>Bisq opens and you are able to use it</p>
<h3>Actual behaviour</h3>
<p>Nothing happens</p>
<h4>Device or machine</h4>
<p>Windows 7 and 10</p>
<h2>Solution</h2>
<p>Change the installation directory to <strong>NOT</strong> include any special characters anywhere in its path.</p>

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