PythonWin problems

[Colin J. Williams]

PythonWin has been my favourite IDE for quite a while.

When one right clicks on a .py file in the Windows Explorer, among the 
options are Open and Edit.  The former is the default and executes 
Python, with the selected script.  The latter activates the PythonWin 
editor, with the selected script.

Since, most frequently, I wish to edit the script, or execute it with 
the debugger, I tried changing the default to Edit, using the Edit File 
Type menu.

Unfortunately, this leads to a couple of problems:

1. Any activity becomes horrendously slow, and
2. The following message appears:
    LoadBarState failed - LoadBarState failed (with win32 exception!)
[Dbg]>>>

Does anyone have a workaround suggestion?

Thanks.

Colin W.