Very Slow PythonWin 2.6.1 Startup on Windows XP SP3

[David Lees]

Allan wrote:
> David Lees <debl2NoSpam at verizon.net> writes:
> 
>> PythonWin used to startup in a second or two on my Windows XP
>> desktop. now it takes around 20 seconds.  I tried turning off Google
>> Desktop indexing and Norton AV, but it still takes a long time to
>> start.  Other random apps such as Firefox 3.0 (which I just updated
>> to) and Thunderbird have normal startup times.
> What happens if you just open a Python command window; is it much
> faster? On my computer which is seven years old (HP Pavilion desktop,
> 512 MB RAM) it takes less than ten seconds for PythonWin to open. You
> might try reinstalling PythonWin.
> 

I just uninstalled all copies of Python from my system(2.5, 2.6 and 
3.0), along with their corresponding PythonWin.  Then I downloaded and 
installed Python 2.6.1 and PythonWin build 212.  Now Python starts up 
nearly instantly.  Thanks for the suggestion.

David