[EricBLivingston]

The new beta behaves the same way - clicking on it fails immediately with a generic launcher error, and running the Minion-jfx.jar yields the following. Do you need me to download that other jar or is this output from the included jar of the .exe I downloaded sufficient?

C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Minion\app>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is E8BF-103A

 Directory of C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Minion\app

03/06/2015  03:12 PM    <DIR>          .
03/06/2015  03:12 PM    <DIR>          ..
03/06/2015  03:12 PM    <DIR>          lib
03/06/2015  11:52 AM           681,688 Minion-jfx.jar
12/22/2014  01:20 PM                48 minion_updater.sh
12/22/2014  01:20 PM               481 minion_updater.wsf
03/06/2015  11:52 AM             1,011 package.cfg
               4 File(s)        683,228 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  15,322,451,968 bytes free

C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Minion\app>java -jar Minion-jfx.jar
Mar 10, 2015 8:11:44 AM com.zam.minion.Minion start
INFO: Attempting to start Minion...
Exception in Application start method
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflec*****thod.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplicationWithArgs(Unk
nown Source)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication(Unknown Sou
rce)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.reflec*****thod.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper$FXHelper.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception in Application start method
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(Unknown So
urce)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication$147(
Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$$Lambda$57/752848266.run(Unkn
own Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected IOException while starting JUn
ique/Server for id "com.zam.minion.Minion"
        at it.sauronsoftware.junique.Server.start(Unknown Source)
        at it.sauronsoftware.junique.JUnique.acquireLock(Unknown Source)
        at com.zam.minion.Minion.start(Minion.java:57)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication1$153
(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl$$Lambda$60/293301155.run(Unkn
own Source)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runAndWait$166(Unknown
 Source)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$$Lambda$45/584634336.run(Unkn
own Source)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$null$164(Unknown Sourc
e)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$$Lambda$47/1219713454.run(Unk
nown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$165(Unknown S
ource)
        at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl$$Lambda$46/501263526.run(Unkn
own Source)
        at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication._runLoop(Native Method)
        at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication.lambda$null$141(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.glass.ui.win.WinApplication$$Lambda$37/96639997.run(Unknown S
ource)
        ... 1 more
Caused by: java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: JVM_Bind
        at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.bind0(Native Method)
        at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.bind(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(Unknown Source)
        ... 17 more
Exception running application com.zam.minion.Minion
Exception in thread "Thread-6" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at it.sauronsoftware.junique.Server.stop(Unknown Source)
        at it.sauronsoftware.junique.JUnique.releaseLock(Unknown Source)
        at it.sauronsoftware.junique.JUnique.access$300(Unknown Source)
        at it.sauronsoftware.junique.JUnique$ShutdownHook.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Local\Minion\app>

Hope that helps!