Tony Mullen wrote: > Python itself seems to work. If I click python.exe it runs. > However, it does not appear in my start menu
You could create the links yourself. Or reinstall Python 2.5.1. > and I cannot set it as the default application to open .py files. That's a problem of your OS. But I wonder why you cannot? The Windows XP I have lets me use anything as application for opening files of certain type. For fixing this, see above. > Since uninstalling Python 2.4 (I have since installed 2.5.1 and > rebooted several times) I can also no longer run IDLE. Is it some kind of mental oder physical barrier, or is there an error if you try to? > Any ideas where I am going wrong here? Wrong OS ;) Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #87: Password is too complex to decrypt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list