[issue6941] Socket error when launching IDLE

2009-10-11 Thread Bonnie Douglas
Bonnie Douglas added the comment: I too seem to have experienced this same problem. I am running Windows Vista. After choosing to shut down my computer and restart without cleanly shutting down IDLE I got a "socket error" - socket error:connection refused when I next tried to l

[issue6941] Socket error when launching IDLE

2009-10-13 Thread Bonnie Douglas
Bonnie Douglas added the comment: The only other thing that I've done is change my firewall software. I use Bullguard. I had to use the Custom Security settings for the Firewall, but set it to always allow pythonw.exe and python.exe access to all ports. A colleague of mine is also runni