Dear all, We found a very simple (and trivial) solution to the problem. We rebooted winXP in safe-mode (logged in as adminstrator) and installed pymol without any problem. Now it runs fine. Best, Joris
Joris Beld wrote: > Dear all, > Unfortunately this -and previous suggestions- do not fix the problem > we encounter when installing pymol on our brand new Dell winXP/SP2 > systems. > We tried the suggestions in the pymol-wiki, we tried the specific > 16-bit Dell issue and we tried the shorter path method without any > success. What happens now is that the installer doesn't start up at > all, although the wowexec is loaded. The wowexec process just hangs > till one logs out/reboots. > Anyone another idea how to fix this? Thanks for the help! > Best, > Joris > Hilvert Gruppe, ETH Zürich, Switzerland >