On 12/4/2014 11:46 AM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
Yeah, the problem seems to be with registry as every solution seems to be fiddling with registry.
One can edit the registry directly with regedit. If you try it, follow the instruction to first make a backup. Look for a regedit tutorial on the web.
I know that reinstalling OS is a really bad idea. But I have tried to find a way to solve this for months now. I have started a bounty on superuser also for the same in the question "Python IDLE disappeared from the right click context menu". And asking on these groups was the last thing I can think of. I uninstalled via the Control Panel. I installed via the official Python installer for Windows. I also don't understand how a start menu entry can begin an installation but it is doing just that.
To me, this specifically indicates a registry mixup. To prevent installation, delete or rename the downloaded install files.
Now there seems to be 4 IDLE entries in my start menu. Two are valid (2.7.8, 3.4.2). The other two are previous installations of Python 3.4 that I did at different locations but removed later.
Delete those two.
I have stopped running IDLE from the start menu due to this. Because I am never sure whether it will re-install Python 3.4 at those old locations or not. Even right clicking those entries in start menu causes the installations to start. So I cannot even find the physical path of those entries.
With Win7, I keep the two current installed Idles pinned to the taskbar. (I also have all three Python development versions pinned.) With 5 different builds of Idle to edit with, I open one or more first and then open to edit (often with Recent files). I almost never use 'Edit with Idle'.
Maybe too much fiddling with the registry has caused it. Not sure about that.
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