After some digging, I'm fairly convinced that its not spyder or python that 
are causing directly causing my problems, but somehow related to the 
Windows explorer function. 

When I run spyder, I get the crash when I see "loading file explorer....." 
on the splash screen.

I can start spyder light and run python interactively just fine. I can see 
and use the variable explorer.

BUT, when I attempt to either use the "working directory" function from the 
options pull down in spyder light, OR I attempt to run a python script 
using the "Run..." command from the spyder light options pull down, spyder 
light just disappears from my screen. By running spyder light from another 
computer, the first thing I see is a windows file explorer window when I 
access the two aforementioned commands, is a windows file explorer.

So, I now know:
1. When spyder tried to load the file explorer at startup, it crashes
2. When spyder light tries to open the the working directory, it activiates 
a Windows explorer window, and crashes.
3. When spyder light tries run a python script, it activiates a Windows 
explorer window, and crashes.

The votes have been counted folk....Somehow, when spyder/python tries to 
access this function in the OS, it crashes. 

Is this a registry problem? A path problem?

D

On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 10:36:12 AM UTC-7, dprice wrote:
>
> Carlos,
>
> Thanks for the reply. If you could redirect all advice regarding this 
> issue to this group, I'd appreciate it. Google groups is more convenient 
> for me to use than GitHub.
>
> This morning, I reinstalled spyder (conda install spyder) after I 
> uninstalled it last night.
>
> "spyder" did not work.
> "spyder --new-instance" did not work
>
> Deleting the .spyder2 directory, followed by "spyder --new-instance" did 
> not work.
>
> In all cases, Windows reported "python.exe has stopped working".
>
> Windows reported:
>
> Problem signature:
>   Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
>   Application Name:    python.exe
>   Application Version:    0.0.0.0
>   Application Timestamp:    54935c78
>   Fault Module Name:    python27.dll
>   Fault Module Version:    2.7.9150.1013
>   Fault Module Timestamp:    54935c77
>   Exception Code:    c0000005
>   Exception Offset:    0008fc79
>   OS Version:    6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4
>   Locale ID:    1033
>   Additional Information 1:    0a9e
>   Additional Information 2:    0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
>   Additional Information 3:    0a9e
>   Additional Information 4:    0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
>
> If I'm not mistaken, the additional info lines contain call outs to my 
> registry, though a search via REGEDIT turned up no matches..
>
> My username is 5 letters that are all ascii. 
>
> On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 8:09:42 PM UTC-7, Carlos Córdoba wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> Please follow the advice I gave you on Github. Other than that, I'd like 
>> to ask you if you have a Windows user name that has non-ascii letters on 
>> it. That could be other thing that is causing your problem.
>>
>> And yet another advice is to look for and remove our configuration 
>> directory, which is called .spyder2 (notice the dot at the beginning of it).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Carlos
>>
>>  El 19/05/15 a las 18:36, dprice escribió:
>>  
>> I've been trying to solve this problem for weeks, to no avail. Please 
>> note I am a technical person, but hardware, not software. 
>>
>> Here's the issue. I had the old Spyder 1.7.0/pyt2.7 working for years on 
>> my laptop, Win 7, 32-bit. I recently uninstalled it and reinstalled Spyder 
>> 2.3.4-pyt2.7. 
>>
>> When:
>>
>> I launch spyder from:
>>
>> 1. The Spyder Windows icon
>> 2. From the windows command prompt
>> 3. From the Anaconda command prompt
>> 4. From the python command line
>> 5. From the windows command prompt with defaults (spyder --defaults)
>>
>> It always results in a crash, followed by "python.exe has stopped 
>> working" (or sometimes "pythonw.exe has stopped working"). This usually 
>> happens when the splash screen says "loading file explorer"
>>
>> What I have tried that does not fix the problem:
>>
>> 1. Uninstalling and reinstalling
>> 2. Resetting spyder (spyder --reset)
>> 3. deleting the .spyder2 directory 
>> 4. changing the spyder config file, to disable the explorer. This results 
>> in the crash happening when the splash screen says "loading namespace...."
>>
>> The only information I receive from windows is the an applications crash, 
>> and the offending application is python27.dll.
>>
>> I'm out of ideas and need help. I am willing to do the work and send 
>> whatever info required to solve this problem, but I need a guru to lead the 
>> way.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
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