Hi Chris, Reading your hint from the thread: "How to install a new product in Zope 2.7" to run python.exe instead of pythonw.exe in the runzope.bat now I can provide some error messages that indicate the problem of an ImportError. May be because of some "old" python relicts in the code? -- Still being curious how to get zope 2.7 starting on my WinXP-box, Elena The error-details from the console: L:\Zope\Zope27\ZopeInstanceFiles\bin>runzope L:\Zope\Zope27\ZopeInstanceFiles\bin>"L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\bin\pytho n.exe" "L:\Zope\Zope27\Z ope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\Zope\Startup\run.py" -C "L:\Zope\Zope27\ZopeInstanceFiles\etc\zope.conf" Traceback (most recent call last): File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\Zope\Startup\run.py", line 27, in ? run() File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\Zope\Startup\run.py", line 21, in run opts.realize(doc="Sorry, no option docs yet.") File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\zdaemon\zdoptions.py", line 257, in realize self.load_schema() File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\zdaemon\zdoptions.py", line 298, in load_schema self.schema = ZConfig.loadSchema(self.schemafile) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZConfig\loader.py", line 36, in loadSchema return SchemaLoader().loadURL(url) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZConfig\loader.py", line 70, in loadURL return self.loadResource(r) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZConfig\loader.py", line 134, in loadResource self.registry, self) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZConfig\schema.py", line 43, in parseResource xml.sax.parse(resource.file, parser) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\bin\Lib\xml\sax\__init__.py", line 33, in parse parser.parse(source) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\bin\Lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 91, in parse xmlreader.IncrementalParser.parse(self, source) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\bin\Lib\xml\sax\xmlreader.py", line 123, in parse self.feed(buffer) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\bin\Lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 144, in feed self._parser.Parse(data, isFinal) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\bin\Lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 218, in start_element self._cont_handler.startElement(name, AttributesImpl(attrs)) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZConfig\schema.py", line 115, in startElement getattr(self, "start_" + name)(attrs) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZConfig\schema.py", line 305, in start_import self.loadComponent(src) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZConfig\schema.py", line 313, in loadComponent xml.sax.parse(r.file, parser) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\bin\Lib\xml\sax\__init__.py", line 33, in parse parser.parse(source) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\bin\Lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 91, in parse xmlreader.IncrementalParser.parse(self, source) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\bin\Lib\xml\sax\xmlreader.py", line 123, in parse self.feed(buffer) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\bin\Lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 144, in feed self._parser.Parse(data, isFinal) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\bin\Lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 218, in start_element self._cont_handler.startElement(name, AttributesImpl(attrs)) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZConfig\schema.py", line 115, in startElement getattr(self, "start_" + name)(attrs) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZConfig\schema.py", line 326, in start_sectiontype keytype, valuetype, datatype = self.get_sect_typeinfo(attrs) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZConfig\schema.py", line 203, in get_sect_typeinfo datatype = self.get_datatype(attrs, "datatype", "null") File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZConfig\schema.py", line 196, in get_datatype return self._registry.get(dtname) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZConfig\datatypes.py", line 296, in get t = self.search(name) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZConfig\datatypes.py", line 313, in search package = __import__(start, g, g) File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZServer\__init__.py", line 36, in ? from HTTPServer import zhttp_server, zhttp_handler File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZServer\HTTPServer.py", line 44, in ? from PubCore import handle File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZServer\PubCore\__init__.py", line 14, in ? import ZRendezvous File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZServer\PubCore\ZRendezvous.py", line 15, in ? from ZServerPublisher import ZServerPublisher File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZServer\PubCore\ZServerPublisher.py ", line 13, in ? from ZPublisher import publish_module File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZPublisher\__init__.py", line 23, in ? from Publish import publish_module, Retry File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py", line 19, in ? from Response import Response File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Response.py", line 13, in ? import HTTPResponse File "L:\Zope\Zope27\Zope-2.7.0-b1\lib\python\ZPublisher\HTTPResponse.py", line 19, in ? import zlib, struct ImportError: Module use of python21.dll conflicts with this version of Python. 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