# PsychoPy won't start

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-wont-start/2035>\
**Category:** Other\
**Created:** [March 2, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-wont-start/2035 "2017-03-02T14:27:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![jon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/jon/32/22_2.png) [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-wont-start/2035/17 "2017-04-06T13:19:52Z")

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Apparently Damien knew of one suggested fix for this, see the link below:

> [@Psychopy wont start](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-wont-start/2263):
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> Hi, All of a sudden psychopy will not launch. The splash screen appears and then disappears. I have tried to re-install psychopy also I have deleted the psychopy folder in “c:\users\<user\>\appdata\roaming”. none of these have worked. OS is windows 10. When i try and run psychopy from the command line I get the following error message: C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\>python.exe “C:\Program Files (x86)\PsychoPy2\Lib\site-packages\PsychoPy-1.84.2-py2.7.egg\psychopy\app\[psychopyApp.py](http://psychopyApp.py)" Traceb…

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