I’ve been attempting to install Standalone Psychopy on a Win XP machine. It appears to install correctly, but whenever I launch from the start menu in Windows, I immediately get an error message:
"C:\Program Files\Psychopy2\pythonw.exe
This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix the problem."
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling 1.84.0 and had a go with 1.83.04 to see if that made any difference. No luck, always the same response.
I forgot to add I also followed the suggestions in the troubleshooting section relating to installation and updated the service pack …(although the version I was using seemed ok) .but nothing changed following that…
And…problem solved. I just found an old post from Jon describing a workaround involving downloading and installing Python 2.6.6 …I’m not sure how this worked, but it solved the problem…at least with PP version 1.82…I haven’t tried it with 1.84 yet…
FYI: I think this was caused by win XP not installing .NET by default (and that version of python installed a .net library). Newer versions of windows include it anyway so this issue has gone away for most users.