My home tab and command line are missing in MATLAB 2019b

My Home tab and command line are missing. I also cannot open MATLAB through the shortcut, I have to open an already existing .m file to get matlab open. It was working fine last week, but I cannot get it to work properly now. This is the screen I get. Does anyone know how I can get my command line and variable workspace back?

[per isakson]

Try

Open the Command Window

The Command Window is always open. To restore the Command Window to the default location, go to the Home tab, and in the Environment section, click Layout. Then, select from one of the default layout options.

[Ian Desmarais]

The problem is I don't have a home tab to go to. So I guess what the question should actually say is : I do not have a home tab.

Answer 1

[per isakson]

Your screen shows an undocked Matlab Editor - I think. Notice the icon in the upper left corner

here is a screen clip from an undocked Editor

Your Matlab IDE might be minimized.

In the upper right corner of the undocked Editor there is little icon

click the triangle and dock the editor.

click on the Matlab icon in the taskbar (assuming MsWindows) and chose the top "window".

[Ian Desmarais]

Unfortunately that did not work either.

It is already docked.

[Ian Desmarais]

Since I cannot actually launch Matlab from the shortcut - it freezes on the splash loading screen indefinitely - I think that might have something to do with it. But I really have no idea.

[per isakson]

See How do I perform a clean installation of MATLAB on a Windows system?

and Why does MATLAB hang at splash screen and give "Failed to load nativecmdwin library: no nativecmdwin in java.library.path" error?

and if that doesn't help contact support

If you still experience issues, please contact MathWorks Support: http://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us/

[Ian Desmarais]

Thank you, I ended up just doing a clean install of MATLAB.

[Wai Myo Khaing Hsu]

Thank you so much. This is really helpful to me.

[vani manjunath]

thanks for showing the steps to get home button