Unable to run any programs (exit value 8)

Hey Guys,

So a couple days ago (since upgrading to Titanium Studio Build: 3.4.0.201409261227) I've been unable to run any programs. I tried to use multiple samples provided by Titanium (since I certainly didn't rule out operator error haha) but they all seemed to give me the same error. Since this is a Windows machine I'm only trying to get the programs running on Android device (using Genymotion's emulator that's running version 2.3)

I'm using a 64bit Windows 8 machine that's running 8.1.

Specs of my pc:

Intel Core i5-4200U CPU @ 1.6GHz 2.3 GHz 6 GB of ram

[ERROR] Application Installer abnormal process termination. Process exit value was 8
C:\Users\IX\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\titanium\node_modules\longjohn\dist\longjohn.js:185
        throw e;
              ^
TypeError: Bad argument
    at ChildProcess.spawn (child_process.js:936:24)
    at exports.spawn (child_process.js:736:9)
    at async.parallel.powershell (C:\ProgramData\Titanium\mobilesdk\win32\3.4.0.GA\node_modules\titanium-sdk\lib\windows.js:385:14)
    at C:\ProgramData\Titanium\mobilesdk\win32\3.4.0.GA\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:524:25
    at C:\ProgramData\Titanium\mobilesdk\win32\3.4.0.GA\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:111:13
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at _each (C:\ProgramData\Titanium\mobilesdk\win32\3.4.0.GA\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:32:24)
    at async.each (C:\ProgramData\Titanium\mobilesdk\win32\3.4.0.GA\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:110:9)
    at _parallel (C:\ProgramData\Titanium\mobilesdk\win32\3.4.0.GA\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:523:20)
    at async.parallel (C:\ProgramData\Titanium\mobilesdk\win32\3.4.0.GA\node_modules\async\lib\async.js:539:9)

• I tried to use one of the continuous builds (3.4.0 RC2), but still got the error.

• I've deleted and reinstalled the latest Titanium SDK version, but that didn't help.

• I tried to switch back down to version 3.3 of the Titanium SDK, but the error message just changed 3.4.0 to 3.3.0.

• I've uninstalled Titanium Studio and reinstalled it, but that didn't help. (restarted the machine before reinstalling)

• I've uninstalled node.js, and reinstalled the latest version from their website (v0.10.32), but that didn't help. (restarted machine before installing again). Unfortunately, I'm not sure which node.js version I had when the problem originally started (unistalled before checking the version).

• I tried to download the SDK after reinstalling node.js (figured Titanium might get confused if I changed the node.js version after I had already downloaded the SDK)

• I've taken a look at the log file to see if that might help explain the error, but I couldn't see anything that would have correlated to this particular error (please let me know if you'd like me to include that document as well, just rather long so didn't want to include a bunch of useless information).

• I tried to search multiple terms in the search box to see if this question had been asked before but didn't have any luck.

I've started to pull my hair out because for the life of me I can't seem to find out what could be causing this issue. My sincerest apologizes if this error turns out to be a rookie error due to operator error. Any suggestions you guys might be able to offer would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much for any information you guys might be able to offer me, I hope you have a good day!