[Les Ferguson]

I uninstalled zope 2.7.0 and installed 2.7.2 on my win2000 system. The installer failed to register zope as a service.

I can start zope in console using C:\Zope-Instance\bin\runzope.bat but I do not want to be doing this all the time.

I tried to register PythonService.exe but that fails:

E:\usr2\Zope-2.7.2-0\bin>pythonservice.exe /register Registering the Python Service Manager... Fatal Python error: PyThreadState_Get: no current thread abnormal program termination

Was something left behind by the 2.7.0 uninstall that is messing this up?

The Windows Service support in 2.7.2 is broken, but in a shallow way. For full info, including how to fix it yourself (if you want to), please see: http://zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1438