Andrej,
> if you look at the right part of the status bar you can see where the
> startup failed. Which version of Windows are you using?
It says "Maxima started. Waiting for connection ..."
One thing that is different from a default installation is that I had the
language set to Portuguese (from testing an earlier release candidate).
When I changed the language to English, wxMaxima worked.
When I changed it to anything but English, it didn't work.
However when I changed it back to English again, it didn't work.
("Default language" doesn't work either.) So I don't know what to
conclude, except that maybe the language selection has something
to do with the problem. Maybe someone else can try selecting a
different language and reporting what happens?
I am running Windows XP.
Robert