2.6 windows install

[Kevin D. Smith]

On 2009-08-21 11:43:31 -0500, Kevin D. Smith 
<Kevin.Smith at sixquickrun.com> said:

> On 2009-08-21 10:39:09 -0500, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> said:
> 
>>> Did you install Python to the network device from your XP box? That
>>> would explain why you can run it: the required registry settings &
>>> environment variables are added by the installer, none of which is
>>> occurring on any computer other than the one from which you installed.
>> 
>> In principle, Python doesn't need any registry settings or environment
>> variables in order to run.
> 
> That may be true, but it doesn't explain why python won't run.  I'm 
> guessing that it has something to do with the msvc*90.dll files not 
> getting installed.  If those dlls haven't been previously installed, 
> they won't be on the client machine in order for python to use them.  
> However, I haven't had any luck installing these files manually and 
> getting python to work that way.

Installing those files from 
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf&displaylang=en> 
does seem to help, but python still gives an error of "The application 
failed to initialize properly (0xc00000022)."  I'm not really sure 
where to go from here.

-- 
Kevin D. Smith