I had the same problem in a Windows XP Home edition, and a Windows Vista Home edition. In contrast, I do not have this problem in a Windows XP Professional edition. The Windows XP Home system didn't even have a firewall nor an anti-virus and the DEP privileges were in place for Maxima, wxMaxima, and Tcl/Tk. I also tried installing Euler with Maxima in the Windows Vista Home system and Euler's numerical engine works but Maxima still does not work. I run Maxima from a DOS console (thus avoiding the use of wxMaxima) and still Maxima does not work. You should try that to rule out that your problem isn't Maxima itself. Open a DOS shell and go to c:\program files\maxima-X.Y.Z\bin. Then run the maxima.bat file and see what happens. If Maxima starts in console mode, then you have a wxMaxima issue or a Maxima-wxMaxima connections issue. But if maxima itself does not start on the DOS shell, then the problem lies in Maxima, not in its connection to wxMaxima.
HTH
Rub?n
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Dr. Rub?n Roa-Ureta
AZTI - Tecnalia / Marine Research Unit
Txatxarramendi Ugartea z/g
48395 Sukarrieta (Bizkaia)
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> De: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
> [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] En nombre de
> qophs59588 at mypacks.net
> Enviado el: domingo, 20 de febrero de 2011 3:19
> Para: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> Asunto: [Maxima] Installation problem with Maxima-5.23.2
>
> Hello:
>
> I've had older Maxima version on my computer (about 2 years
> back) and it worked with ZoneAlarm free firewall and Norton
> Antivirus/Internet security. My system: WinXP 32-bit Home
> Edition service pack 3; AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+, 2.2
> GHz, 3 GB RAM.
> Unfortunately, I've uninstalled it in order to try the latest
> 5.23.2 version.
> Now, wxMaxima and XMaxima can not connect to Maxima.
> I've uninstalled ZoneAlarm and changed the DEP settings, but
> it didn't help. However, another CAS, Euler, which uses
> Maxima, started to connect with it's own Maxima - ZoneAlarm
> removal had helped. I've returned the DEP settings to
> default. I installed the newest Euler version to be able to
> use Maxima, but it is not the latest Maxima.
> Whatever the reason for not be able to connect to Maxima,
> there is another serious problem:
> wxMaxima creates 21 temporary files in c:/Temp directory,
> when it tries to connect to Maxima. Norton antivirus detects
> the attempts of the program modules to connect to the
> Internet and asks for permission. The problem is that the
> temporary files have different names every time you run
> wxMaxima (file names are like this: TCLXXX.tmp, where XXX
> are digits or A,B,C,D). It will be always a problem. It is
> very time consuming to manually remove all those temporary
> file names from the Norton's trusted submodules list, as you
> can do it only one-by-one, clicking on the file name and
> waiting ~3-4 seconds to delete it. If you run wxMaxima
> several times, the list grows very quickly.
> The temporary files disappear from the C:/Temp directory
> after wxMaxima is closed. Therefore, I suppose, it is easy
> to fix the problem by using fixed file names every time.
>
> DG
>
>
>
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