On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 6:16:24 AM UTC+1, Jean-Claude Roy wrote: > I am trying to install Python 3.6.0 on a Windows 7 computer. > The download of 29.1 MB is successful and I get the nextwindow. I choose the > "install now" selection and thatopens the Setup Program window. > Now the trouble starts:I get "Installing:" and the Initialization > progress...and nothing else. > There is no additional disk activity, no progress on initialization, > andeverything appears dead. Even after 20 minutes there is zero progress. > I've repeated this as both a user and the administrator of this > Windowscomputer. I get the same results in either case. > If I go to the task manager it shows that Python 3.6.0 (32-bit) setup is > running. If I try to end the task Iget the message that the program is not > responding. > Do you have any suggestions as to how I can get past this? > Thank you.
Disabling/enabling options had no effect for me. In the end I simply had to wait for something like 5 minutes, perhaps even longer, but then it continued to install normally. Seems there's something happening at the initialization stage, as if it is waiting for a time-out... JWK -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list