I installed a video game , but when I try launching it it just says this:
The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.
I checked the event log and it says:
Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.MFC,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.6195" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.
I installed many patches but none of them have the exact number (version?)(8.0.50727.6195) and the game still doesn't work. Can you help me please?
PS: I use windows 10 64 bit
Edit: I forgot to mention that I already downloaded the version from this link: microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26347 and the one from this link: microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=26401 but it still doesn't work. I ran the first one as administrator and then restarted the computer, and then tried the second one. When I ran the second one it says the upgrade patch cannot be installed by the windows installer because the program to be updated may be missing, or the update patch may update a different version of the program.
What am I exactly supposed to do with the program I installed for the first link? I just ran it as administrator but it did nothing.
EDIT 2: The windows just updated the x64 files and the game works now. Thanks for the help!
The problem is that you didn't installed the correct SP1 security patched version.
This is the one version you need.
Select the 32bit version and install it. See also this KB Article.
BTW: Just 1min in Google and you would have found the solution.
I'm trying to install iCloud on my Windows XP Pro (SP3) PC. Officially it's supported only for Vista and later, but this hack is widely claimed to work:
Open iCloudSetup.exe file and unzip its files including
Navigate to and open the iCloud.msi with Orca.
In the left table select LaunchCondition. Then change in the right table “VersionNT> = 600” to “VersionNT> = 200” and Save.
Run modified iCloud.msi and install.
Run iCloud Control Panel, located in the Windows Control Panel, and set up as you want.
I tried that promising solution in vain. It seemed to successfully install iCloud, but whenever I try to run it I get
this obscure error
After much fruitless searching I've not found out how to proceed from there and would appreciate advice please.
That trick worked with only the firs versions of iCloud Panel, the v1.0.
For the v2.1 doing the trick the installer ran ok, but when trying to run the iCloud Panel it showed the error you're refering to.
I had some computers running with that older version without any problem.
Try downloading the v1.0 version here:
http://icloud-control-panel-for-windows.uptodown.com/descargar/22412
If you want to try the trick with the v2.1 you have the installer here:
http://icloud-control-panel-for-windows.uptodown.com/
Remember you need to extract the MSI from the exe to do the trick. After running the exe check the %TEMP% folder to get the MSI file.
I am currently running Enthought Canopy version 1.5.2 full version, through an academic license at a 64bit Windows 7. I was a happy user for a couple months until a 'pythonw.exe has stopped working' issue rendered the software useless. This issue shows up when I open the editor (Ipython+Canopy's GUI) and does not allows me to use the software at all. I have tried the following solutions without luck:
Fresh install deleting several folders manually (https://support.enthought.com/hc/en-us/articles/204469700-Uninstalling-and-resetting-Canopy)
Fresh install+clearing python registry keys under hkeys_user and hkey_system and pythonw.exe related keys into windows regedit.exe (Problems in fully uninstalling Python 2.7 from Windows 7)
My second try actually gave me a false sense of victory, when Canopy worked for a couple hours, until the same issue happened taking all hope with it.
I don't know what to do anymore, any help would be much appreciated.
I had this problem also. And discovered it was due to my windows firewall blocking pythonw.exe
Either turn off the firewall. Or create exceptions for pythonw.exe (but be warned this files occurs in a few different directories. And I'm not sure which one gave the specific issue.
In the end I installed a new firewall (COMODO). And now everything works...
I recently installed windows 7 on VirtualBox and installed battle.net.
When I start battle.net I get this error: http://i.imgur.com/006cpRC.png
I googled a lot but I was not able to find an anwser :/
Also tried to put Windows 7 on VMWare but that resulted in me getting the same error.
Before this I tried downloading the driver for the GPU I have but then I get this error, http://i.imgur.com/kMacwB8.png
Hope you guys can help me :)
You may need to enable 3D acceleration on VirtualBox. By default it is disabled.
The steps to enable:
Right click the Windows 7 VM in Virtual Box and click Settings.
Click the Display category.
Check Enable 3D Acceleration and increase Video Memory as needed.
Install drivers:
While the VM is running, click Devices menu and then Install Guest Additions
Click Run VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe in the popup and run through the installer.
See: http://www.howtogeek.com/124479/how-to-enable-3d-acceleration-and-use-windows-aero-in-virtualbox/ for extra information.
Note that the article states the 3D acceleration is experimental and should run older games, but possibly not newer games. The article was written in 2012, so I'm not sure what the current state is. You should be able to tell if it's enabled by whether or not the Aero interface is usable.
Resolved April 15, 2013.
In windows 7 (64bit) windows explorer when I right clicked a Python file and selected "edit with IDLE" the editor opens properly but when I run (or f5) the Python 3.3.1 program, it fails with the "IDLE's subprocess didn't make connection. Either IDLE can't start a subprocess or personal firewall software is blocking the connection." error message. All other methods of starting IDLE for running my python 3.3.1 programs worked perfectly.
Even the "Send to" method worked but it was unacceptably clunky. I've spend four days (so far) researching this and trying various things including reinstalling Python many times.
And NO it's not the FireWall blocking it. I've tried totally turning Firewall off and it had no effect.
Here's an important clue: In the beginning I installed and configured python 3.3 64 bit and everything worked including running from "edit with IDLE" but then recently when I needed a library only available in Python 2 I installed python 2.7.4 and from that point on the stated problem began. At one point I completely removed all traces of both versions and reinstalled Python 3.3.1 64 bit. Problem remained.
Then I tried have both 32 bit versions installed but still no luck. Then at some point in my muddling around I lost the option to "edit with IDLE" and spent a day trying everything including editing in Regedit. No luck there either. I reinstalled Python 3.3.1 still no "edit with IDLE" then Finally I uninstalled all versions of Python and I removed python references to environment variables PATH and PYTHONPATH. Then I Deleted all the Python related keys in the windows registry, deleted the C:\python33 directory that the uninstall didn't bother to delete. Overkill, of course, then I restarted windows and installed Python 3.3.1 64 bit version again and thankfully the option to 'edit with IDLE' was back. I was momentarily happy, I opened windows explorer, right clicked on a python program, selected 'edit with IDLE' selected RUN (eyes closed) and you guessed it, same original error message "IDLE's subprocess didn't make connection. Either IDLE can't start a subprocess or personal firewall software is blocking the connection."
I am completely stuck on this issue and really need help. Pretty sure that you can see I and not a happy camper. And to top it all off, I guess I don't understand StackOverflow yet, I have had this plea for help up in various versions for 5 days and not one response from anyone. Believe me I've looked at every thing in stackoverflow plus other sites and I can't see the answer. Almost seems like I have to answer my own question and post it, trouble is, so far I can't.
Anyway, thanks for listening. Yes I'm pretty new to Python but I've been programming and overcoming problems for many years (too many perhaps). anyone? Not personally having someone that is familiar with Python makes this difficult, how can I get in touch with an expert in Python for a quick phone conversation?
I had this same problem today. I found another stack overflow post where someone had a tkinter.py file in the same directory as python, and they fixed it by removing that tkinter.py file. When I looked in my python directory, I realized I had created a script called random.py and put it there. I suspect that it conflicted with the normal random module in python. When I removed this file, python started working again.
So I would suggest you look in your main python directory and see if there are any .py files that you could move to different places.
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit. I saw the same errors today. I tracked down the cause for me, hopefully it'll help you. I had IDLE open in the background for days. Today I tried to run a script in IDLE, and got the "IDLE's subprocess didn't make connection. Either IDLE can't start a subprocess or personal firewall software is blocking the connection." errors. So I closed all IDLE windows, and tried to restart IDLE. That then caused the same errors to pop up, and now IDLE wouldn't open successfully.
The cause was an extra pythonw.exe process running in the background. If I open up an instance of IDLE, then open a second, the second has issues connecting, and closes. But it does not close the instances of pythonw.exe that it opened, one is left running in the background. That extra instance then prevents future attempts to open IDLE.
Opening up Task Manager and killing all pythonw.exe processes fixed IDLE, and now it functions properly on my machine (1 instance open at a time though!).
Look for files on your main python folder that you may create in names like "threading.py", "tkinter.py" and other names that overlapps with your Lib folder and move/delete them
Adding to existing answers - it is actually possible to have firewall block IDLE when not running with -n flag. I haven't used IDLE for a few months and decided to try if it works properly with newly installed python3.3 (on Linux Mint 13 x86). In between I made iptables setup much more aggressive and apparently it blocked idle-python3.3 from connecting to the Python RPC server. Sometimes it is just what the message says.
I had exactly the same issue :"IDLE's subprocess didn't make connection. Either IDLE can't start a subprocess or personal firewall software is blocking the connection."
I found the answer from this stackoverflow site. I created a file named string.py and that classhed with the normal python files. I removed the string.py and everything works now. Thanks folks.
I had the same error message. Error not seen after I added all the *.exe filea to be found in the Python install directory to the Windows firewall exception list.
I finally got it to work when I disabled ALL firewalls and antivirus, because some antivirus ALSO have firewall control. Ex. avast
Remove copy.py in your folder if you happen to have one
Using Windows 7 64 installation of Python 2.7.10 Shell I solved the above problem by opening the program as an administrator.
i have the Same issue on os win7 64Bit and Python 3.1 and find a workaround because i have a Project with many .py files and just one gave this error. - Workaround is to copy a working file and copy the contents from not working file to working file. (i used Another editor as idle. The Problem with that workaround is... of you rename the file it doenst work. attention just rename the not working file doesnt work for me. just that copy paste. – john
I came across this problem too. There are two things you can do
You may already have a process running call pythonw.exe which prevents IDLE from being starting. End that task and try running IDLE again
Use pythonwin or python command line