6.0 worked fine, 7.0 doesn't

This is caused by invalid shortcuts on your desktop (or in the documents directory of your user folder).

When you open a file, the files in the opened directories are checked (by Java, not SNAP itself) for validity (also the “recent files” of your browser).
You can fix it by removing these invalid shortcuts (shortcuts which refer to a file or folder which is no longer there).

Please have a look here: