How to start Magellan via the command line?
Magellan (and Java) often showing error messages in the command window only. To check these messages it is useful to start Magellan from the command line. Open a command window (menu start->run and enter command and click OK). Now enter the command javaw -jar “(Path to Magellan)\magellan.jar” , e.g. javaw -jar “C:\My Documents\magellan.jar”.