open NUL: The system cannot find the file specified

[JLewis1309]

So i had some issues with the Itch.io App crashing when i tried to open it so i uninstalled it and downloaded the latest setup.exe for it and now when i try to install the App it keeps coming up with this error
https://i.imgur.com/mBn9T14.png

Ive tried deleting the setup.exe and downloading it again from the itch.io site and still nothing.
And no i dont have any Antivirus software or firewall preventing it from downloading properly

[fasterthanlime]

Are you on Windows 7, or XP?

[fasterthanlime]

Follow-up question: can you open a Command line prompt (cmd.exe) and type:

type NUL

then press enter. Attach a screenshot of the result. Thanks!

[fasterthanlime]

Second follow-up: please check the registry value mentioned here: #1331 (comment)

[JLewis1309]

1. I am on Windows 10
2. https://i.imgur.com/nLDaUhz.png (i assume i did that correctly)
3. And Yeah i actually recently changed that to try and fix a memory leak issue with Win 10 https://i.imgur.com/3flxnUI.png
   Will Change Value back to 1, restart, and see if problem is fixed

[fasterthanlime]

3. And Yeah i actually recently changed that to try and fix a memory leak issue with Win 1

Well, that's almost definitely it!

Can you tell me where you saw that advice? You're the fourth person I find in the wild who has done that, and I'm really wondering who is going around telling folks to disable an essential Windows service.

[JLewis1309]

Hmm now im getting this when i just open the setup.exe, i dont even get to try and start installing it just immediately pops up. Was going to try and Redownload the setup.exe in case that changed anything but apparently the link is down for the Download on Itch.io so will have to wait till it comes back online lol just my luck.

Also heres one place that says to change the Null Start Value https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2mb5kE6EKc theres also quite a few forums, videos, etc that say to change the Ndu Start Value in Registry

EDIT: Ignore the top part i think it was Because the Host for the App Download was down that i was getting the error

[JLewis1309]

And yup it installed perfectly fine this time and now the App is Open.
Thanks, and also really surprised at how fast of response i got. I was expecting to have to keep checking in here for the next few days to wait and get a response so 10/10 on that ;P

[fasterthanlime]

but apparently the link is down for the Download on Itch.io

Yeah, timing! I just took care of that. Download it again won't change a thing though.

Also heres one place that says to change the Null Start Value https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2mb5kE6EKc theres also quite a few forums, videos, etc that say to change the Ndu Start Value in Registry

Ok, that entire video is exremely bad advice. Please also set Ndu back to what it was before.

The only reason people think the advice in that video helps is because they end up rebooting - and applications tend to use less RAM when they've just started up (obviously)!

Please set it back to the default values - for reference, here's how Null should look:

[fasterthanlime]

And yup it installed perfectly fine this time and now the App is Open.

Awesome, thanks for the update! Going to close this now and keep that thread bookmarked for next time ;)