John, what happens if you run Maxima from an existing command window?
(i.e. one that's already open, so you can see any error message produced
when Maxima quits.)
The path to run would be something like
"C:\Program Files\Maxima-5.22.0\bin\maxima"
or something like that.
best, Robert Dodier
On 12/6/10, John O'Rourke <john.orourke.1351 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have read the readme.txt file regarding the problems getting the
> windows version of 5.22 running. I have used the DEP feature in
> Windows 7 by turning on dep for all programs except the maxima .exe
> program which i browse to within the program files. No joy. I have put
> my anti-virus and spyware firewall software (zone alarm) to trust both
> maxima and wxMaxima across the board. I have also completely turned
> off the spyware program entirely just to see if that had an effect.
> Still no joy. I have checked the task manager to see if the maxima
> program will start running even for a brief time and appear on the
> task manager. It does appear for a few seconds when I restart maxima
> within wxMaxima gui but then it disappears from the task manager list.
> I also see that when i do this the cmd.exe also appears briefly and
> disappears. I have even gone into the bin and lib areas and run
> maxima.bat and maxima.exe and they briefly flash before my eyes with
> the black dos screen and stop running. I have gotten inside the
> configure feature of wxMaxima and i notice that it is pointing to
> something inside the /bin/ area but that location is unmodifiable. I
> don't know what to do. Please help.
>
> Thanks.
> John O'Rourke
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