PythonWin (build 203) for Python 2.3 causes Windows 2000 to grind to a halt?

[Colin J. Williams]

Chris P. wrote:
> AWESOME - my life just got THAT much better.
> 
> The bug you suggested is exactly the problem that I was having... I
> had looked through the bugs being tracked, but the title of that one
> didn't jump out at me as something that would help.  Thanks!
> 
> - Chris
> 
> P.S. For anyone reading this group who wants to know exactly what I
> did:
> 1) Uninstall Pywin32
> 2) Open the registry editor ('regedit' at the command prompt)
> 3) Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python[version]\Python for Win32
> You will likely find many many many keys that have the format
> "ToolbarDefault-Bar#".  These keys filling up your registry cause
> Windows 2000 to become extremely slow/unstable when Python is running
> (especially if your debugger is running.)
> 4) Delete the keys... I just deleted it at the "Python[version]" root
> 5) Reinstall Pywin32
> 
This is a great workaround but I've found that, with build 203, it needs 
to be repeated from time to time.

Colin W.


> "Roger Upole" <rupole at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<41f9e4a9$1_1 at 127.0.0.1>...
> 
>>These look like symptoms of sf bug #1017504
>>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1017504&group_id=78018&atid=551954
>>
>>What version of Pywin32 are you running ?
>>There's a (semi) fix for this in the latest build.
>>   hth
>>      Roger