New submission from Eric Moyer: I installed the python-2.5.1.msi stable package from the python.org website using a super-user account on my system. I installed "for all users" and used the default location and chose to install everything, not omitting any component.
After installation, I moved the startup menu folder to be a sub-menu of my Programming startup menu folder. Then I ran IDLE and typed in a few recipes from the itertools package to ensure that everything worked. Then I logged out and logged back in with my normal user account. In my normal account, the three startup menu items "IDLE (Python GUI)", "Module Docs", and "Python (command line)" all crash. The first two crash with a window titled "pythonw.exe - Application Error". The last one opens an empty command prompt window before dying with a window titled "python.exe - Application Error". All the error windows have the text, "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022). Click on OK to terminate the application" Since it works when I am logged in as an administrator, my guess is that the error has something to do with windows security. ---------- components: IDLE, Installation, Interpreter Core, Windows messages: 58896 nosy: Mr.E severity: major status: open title: pythonw.exe crashes when run as non-administrator on Windows XP Pro type: crash versions: Python 2.5 __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1674> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com