# Designer Launch Error

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launch-error/63760>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 5, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launch-error/63760 "2022-09-05T12:54:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![agavino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@agavino](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/agavino)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launch-error/63760/1 "2022-09-05T12:54:24Z")

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When I try to open Ignition Designer I get an error:  
INFO [DesignerLauncher] [2022/09/05 14:39:29]: Set initial logging level to DEBUG  
INFO [DesignerLauncher] [2022/09/05 14:39:29]: Updating logging level to DEBUG  
DEBUG [DesignerLauncher] [2022/09/05 14:39:30]: Starting localhost receiver service…  
DEBUG [DesignerLauncher] [2022/09/05 14:39:30]: Starting multicast receiver service…  
DEBUG [DesignerLauncher] [2022/09/05 14:39:30]: Multicast receiver service started.  
DEBUG [GatewayInfoRetrieverService] [2022/09/05 14:39:30]: Task has been called for gateway [http://localhost:8088](http://localhost:8088)  
INFO [GatewayConnect] [2022/09/05 14:39:32]: Attempting to connect to gateway [http://localhost:8088](http://localhost:8088)…  
DEBUG [GatewayConnect] [2022/09/05 14:39:32]: checking state of gateway [http://localhost:8088](http://localhost:8088)  
DEBUG [GatewayConnect] [2022/09/05 14:39:32]: gateway ‘[http://localhost:8088](http://localhost:8088)’ state: RUNNING  
INFO [GatewayCommUtil] [2022/09/05 14:39:33]: Downloading “[http://localhost:8088/system/launchbin/launchclient.jar](http://localhost:8088/system/launchbin/launchclient.jar)” (timeout=30)…  
INFO [GatewayCommUtil] [2022/09/05 14:39:33]: Starting download of 4693741 bytes  
ERROR [LaunchUtil] [2022/09/05 14:40:22]: Launch Error Occurred: Downloading of launchclient.jar failed, Launching will not occur

Gateway work fine.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launch-error/63760/2 "2022-09-05T14:00:13Z")

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Sounds like antivirus software aggressively blocking java.