Yes thanks. The Meteor login to accounts option has not worked on any computer in any environment. Meteor does not exist on the machine, nor any of the other three machines I have attempted to install Meteor. The process is consistent in my experience. I have never seen Meteor installed successfully even though Meteor says it has been installed.
Yeah, I am glad it works for you. wish I know what is wrong. I have maintained hundreds of computers and softwares and never seen false messages such as “Meteor is installed” when clearly it isn’t. Onto the fourth machine now, same problem!
Have you tried restarting your machine after installing? Sounds funny but I remember when I used to develop on Windows (dark, dark days) that I had to do a restart for it to be recognised properly.
Though this is going back a couple of years now.
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Thanks, yes, machine restarted also. There are no environment variables for meteor installed either, I have noticed. I will attempt a manual installation now with the Meteor alternative installation procedure that provides the zip archive. At least i can see that files exist and exactly what is needed is put in place per specification. Amazed!
Yes I shortened that. Sorry to not have specified so. I have observed the paths and i am familiar with how Windows manages files, local user files and it’s directories and so on. Worked with and built compliant setup programs a few times before. Meteor is not to be found on the machine anywhere.
Can you sign up/in here?: Meteor Cloud
It seems that the installer is not able to connect to meteor.com?
Below are some topics on similar / related issues. Let us know if any help…
After looking at these topics it seems that the new installer is sorely needed for some people. Guess I just lucked out.
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I don’t know why OP is being flamed, the post title is aggressive but I agree with the problems posted and have faced all of them and posted about them before.
I’ve come to accept that no one really cares about Windows, most tools are targeted for Linux only. Which is why I suggested using the built in bash/Ubuntu in W10.
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I think it was more the initial tone used, though I can understand his frustration.
Yes, I can sign in to the Meteor site. i reset my password just in case i was entering it incorrectly, yet it was the same password as always used. I atempted the setup once more to test the Login, yet the setup returns the same message:"cannot contact the accounts server"
Thank you for the tips and links, much appreciated. I have to say, I am just completely stunned at the situation with this setup. I have not yet made time to complete the manual setup. I will persist!
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This is changing with Meteor 1.6.x. Not only will a 64-bit version of Meteor on Windows be supported, and the old installation process replaced, but a new Windows continuous integration environment is being setup and the full Meteor test suite is being adjusted to be Windows compliant. This means that shortly all tests will be run continuously on both *nix and Windows environments. This has definitely been lacking in the past, and has led to several Windows based bugs that should have been caught by the existing Meteor test suite. All in all, another awesome step forward for Windows users.
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Me too - I don’t care much for Windows, That is why I choose Meteor over any Microsoft dev platform. Unfortunately though, in Corporate environments, typically, we are forced to use MSOS. 'I will investigate the Ubunto in W10 … I did not know about this until mentioned here before. Thank you.
Agreed, however, emotion took over my mind and I let loose a bit, just a bit! 
With all respect to the people and supporters of Meteor - nothing insulting intended, just provocative in nature in seeking attention in a desperate situation after many hours of frustration. tThanks.
Windows is a joke 
Not joking, I hate Windows with a passion. Sure I’ll fire it up to see what things look like in IE, or to build Windows binaries for one of my projects, but Windows really really sux.
Life is too short to use Windows.
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Just a question @theebz: Are you behind a firewall/proxy server? When you say you can sign in to meteor.com, you are of course using a browser. The browser may be using a auto-discovered web proxy to access the internet, but this may not be effective from the command prompt…
After 20 years developing enterprise solutions using proprietary platforms, my only failure was to employ a Windows framework to develop a solution. The runtime dependencies of the whole package and shocking performance of the finished solution brought the product down. We returned all funds to the customer and appologised, 120kAUD short in the pocket. NEVER again Microsoft, bye bye Microsoft development frameworks, languages, servers and anything deployable as an end-product. Cya!
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Thats a really relevant question, I believe, and it has been a thought. i am waiting on a response from IT for this. I am not sure what port or protocol the Meteor setup is using to connect to its account server, but I suppose I could use a dependency walker or other tracking tool to observer what is going on.
I did not look much into this as I have tried the setup from outside my usual office domain / network and only resolved at the same error message regarding the connection to the accounts server. I will investigate further shortly. Thank you.
Ok. While you wait for IT, do this:
In a browser address line enter: http://wpad/wpad.dat
If your network configuration is standard you will get a file. Open with a text editor and check what is the address of the proxy used (including non standard ports). Refer to this if you need help: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/cc939951.aspx
After finding out what the proxy server address is, run the installer from the command prompt (not by double-clicking in file explorer), but before doing that set the HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY variables as your environment requires (needing auth or not):
set http_proxy=http://your_proxy:your_port
set http_proxy=http://username:password@your_proxy:your_port
set https_proxy=https://your_proxy:your_port
set https_proxy=https://username:password@your_proxy:your_port
Then run installer from within the command prompt like explained here: https://superuser.com/questions/876933/running-exe-in-command-prompt
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Sadly, I agree with you. I’ve been trying to install Meteor on Windows 7 for 3 weeks, It fails for the during the first comand - Meteor create sampleappplication.
I’ve raised the issue here:
https://forums.meteor.com/t/unable-to-create-meteor-application-meteor-create-anything-gives-an-error/40073/2?source_topic_id=39997
Can someone please help me.
how can I edit those files then?
I tried to do this and I have no idea since my atom installed on windows cannot edit those files on the linux subsystem.