How to cope with this error while compiling latex with vscode? - visual-studio-code

Question

I followed several tutorials on the Internet and tried to build a latex environment in vscode. However, after I've installed everything and started running a .tex file, it came up with the following error:
Qt: Untested Windows version 6.2 detected!
xelatex: Bad parameter value.
xelatex: Data: font_mem_size
source code test.tex: (I put it in a folder on desktop)
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hello World!
\end{document}
I tried Google, but didn't find any effective approach. I also restarted my computer and reinstalled MiKTeX, but nothing changed.
By the way: I installed LaTeX workshop, MiKTeX and Strawberry Perl (just following the tutorial) and added this into the settings.json of vscode.
"latex-workshop.latex.tools": [
{
"name": "xelatex",
"command": "xelatex",
"args": [
"-synctex=1",
"-interaction=nonstopmode",
"-file-line-error",
"%DOCFILE%"
]
},
{
"name": "pdflatex",
"command": "pdflatex",
"args": [
"-synctex=1",
"-interaction=nonstopmode",
"-file-line-error",
"%DOCFILE%"
]
},
{
"name": "bibtex",
"command": "bibtex",
"args": [
"%DOCFILE%"
]
}
],
"latex-workshop.latex.recipes": [
{
"name": "xelatex",
"tools": [
"xelatex"
],
},
{
"name": "pdflatex",
"tools": [
"pdflatex"
]
},
{
"name": "xe->bib->xe->xe",
"tools": [
"xelatex",
"bibtex",
"xelatex",
"xelatex"
]
},
{
"name": "pdf->bib->pdf->pdf",
"tools": [
"pdflatex",
"bibtex",
"pdflatex",
"pdflatex"
]
}
],
"latex-workshop.view.pdf.viewer": "tab",
"latex-workshop.latex.autoBuild.run": "onFileChange",
"latex-workshop.message.error.show": false,
"latex-workshop.message.warning.show": false,
Update: the issue was solved by reinstalling MiKTeX and resetting its environment variables in PATH.

Answer 1

The issue was eventually solved by reinstalling MiKTeX and resetting its environment variables in PATH. (Another way is to directly install MiKTeX in its recommended directory, which is how I solved the problem.) In addition, the code I added in the settings.json should be discarded (or vscode will report errors).