Hi, I'm answering my own post for the benefit if future newbies: I was having an awful time installing twisted on a W2K Professional machine. In desperation, I uninstalled all the Python things (Python 2.3 and Pythonwin), reinstalled Python 2.3, installed Twisted, and then Pythonwin and all the installations seemed to go OK. Plus I rebooted in between the installations because I didn't have a rubber chicken handy to wave over the computer. Not much of a technical note, but there it is. Informal poll: How many of you out there have ever indulged a taste for totemic decoration and/or fetishistic rituals in connection with debugging? ----- Original Message ----- From: John Benson To: twisted python Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:57 PM Subject: help please: trouble installing twisted python on Windows 2000 Pro, but not Windows XP Pro Hi, I just installed twisted python on my Windows XP laptop which has Python 2.3.2. I went to install it on Windows 2000 Professional version 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4 running Python 2.3 and got the following dialog box diagnostic: "Setup: CreateFile failed; code 5. Access is denied." I've been able to install piles of stuff on this system before, so I figure I have the required administrative privileges. I logon to a Windows domain, and my ID is in the Administrators group of the domain. There is a separate Administrator logon local to the machine which I haven't used, and probably can't get the password for, since this is a managed PC within the domain. Here are my questions: 1) What does the "code 5" failure mean? 2) What am I doing wrong? 3) Can I just move the twisted site-package folders over from my XP system Python 2.3 folder to the corresponding Windows 2000 Pro folder? I'm mostly interested in just importing the twisted modules and prototyping; I can do without the icons and start menu entries.