ROS not running well on windows 10?

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I'm new to ROS, and I am following the tutorials for Windows, starting from here

I know that the windows support is experimental, so I can expect a few glitches - but maybe someone else has seen these problems and knows how to fix (or workaround) them? Let me explain...

1. The first time I ran rViz I could not get the visualisation panel or the MoveIt! motion planning plug in panel to show up. After a bit of messing around, adding the panels, removing them again, adding them again, saving and closing rViz, re-launching rViz, I go them to show up.

2. After another few cycles of launching and closing rViz to try some further tutorials, I found that the panels would randomly disappear and I needed to add them back in again. It is as though the layout is not being saved properly?

3. Now, after yet more cycles of launching and closing rViz, it has finally stopped working completely! When I launch the tool it just creates an empty window with no content at all (no title bar, panels, or grid - nothing!).

I'm using the panda_moveit_config package from the MoveIt! tutorials and I'm launching it using the following procedure:

• Start an elevated command window.
• Run the ROS setup script (c:\opt\ros\melodic\x64\setup.bat).
• Run the MoveIt! setup script (c:\moveit_ws\devel\setup.bat).
• Launch rViz with panda_moveit_config (roslaunch panda_moveit_config demo.launch).

Please can someone tell me where to look for a solution, or how I can workaround it?

Failing that, perhaps some instructions on how to restore my environment by uninstalling/re-installing rViz on my windows 10 environment? I'm completely new to this, so I really don't know where to start!

Edit: @Sean Yen,

Thanks for sharing details of the fix for this issue.

I updated ROS and MoveIt! today using these commands:

choco upgrade ros-melodic-desktop -y choco upgrade ros-melodic-moveit -y

Then I tried to run the MoveIt! example using this command:

roslaunch panda_moveit_config demo.launch

Now, when rViz runs, I get a different problem! An error message appears and no matter how many times I click on "OK" the message just re-appears. I don't have enough points yet in this forum to upload a screenshot of the error message, but this is what it says:

The procedure entry point could not be located in the dynamic link library c:\opt\ros\melodic\x64\lib\robot_state_publisher\robot_state_publisher.exe

I checked that the "robot_state_publisher.exe" file exists in the path mentioned in the message.

In the command window, another message tells me that "[robot_state_publisher-3] process has died" and gives an exit code of "-1073741511".

Please can you suggest how I can diagnose/fix this problem?