You double-click the TradingView icon and nothing happens — no window, no error. Work through these 7 fixes in order. The first one resolves about half of all cases in under a minute.
When the TradingView desktop app gives no response at all to a double-click — no window, no splash, no error dialog — it almost always means one of three things: the app is already running as a hung background process, the local cache is corrupted, or the embedded renderer is failing on launch (a GPU or third-party-software conflict). The fixes below are ordered most-common first. Stop as soon as the app opens.
Ctrl+Shift+Esc for Task Manager. Under Processes, end every entry named TradingView. Relaunch. This alone fixes roughly half of "won't open" cases — the app was already running, just frozen.Win+R, paste %AppData%\TradingView, Enter. Delete the Cache folder. Relaunch. Your account data is in the cloud — nothing is lost.%LocalAppData%\Programs\TradingView) to fix the underlying permission issue.%LocalAppData%\Programs\TradingView to your antivirus exclusions. Norton, McAfee and Avast occasionally quarantine the executable silently.%LocalAppData%\Programs\TradingView and %AppData%\TradingView. Reboot. Install a fresh copy from the official download page. Account data restores on sign-in.The most common reason is that TradingView is already running in the background — clicking the icon again does nothing because the process is hung. Open Task Manager, end every TradingView process, and relaunch. If that doesn't work, a corrupted cache or a GPU driver issue is the next most likely cause.
Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager, find every entry named TradingView under Processes, select each one and click End Task. Then relaunch the app from the Start menu. Force-closing a hung process is the fix for roughly half of all "won't open" cases.
Often, yes. Close the app, open %AppData%\TradingView in File Explorer, delete the Cache folder, and relaunch. Your watchlists and layouts are stored in your TradingView account, not the cache, so nothing is lost.
Yes. Some antivirus products (Norton, McAfee, Avast) occasionally quarantine the TradingView executable. Add the install folder %LocalAppData%\Programs\TradingView to your antivirus exclusion list, then relaunch.
Reinstalling is the last resort and it works when nothing else does. Uninstall via Settings, delete the leftover folders in %LocalAppData%\Programs\TradingView and %AppData%\TradingView, reboot, and install a fresh copy. Your account data restores on sign-in.