For Windows, Qt Creator will return an error every time you open it:

2020-05-10T09:54:37 Clang Code Model: Error: Clangbackend executable “F:\Qt\Qt5.12.8\Tools\QtCreator\bin\clangbackend. Exe “could not be started (timeout after 10000ms).

Solutions are as follows:

Qt Creator-> menu -> help -> about plug-ins ->C++-> remove ClangCodeModel-> restart Qt Creator