Pythonxy install does not run Spyder, IDLE ,IPython, PyLab

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If relevant, please answer to the following questions:
1. What version of Python(x,y) have you installed?
 v 2.7.5.0

2. Which components have you installed (Python(x,y) installer:
componentpage):
    a. Have you selected the "Recommended" component selection?
        No
    b. Have you selected the "Full" component selection?
        Yes
c. Have you selected manually plugins in the component list?
Whatplugins?
        No

3. Have you selected the option "Customize installation directories"?
b. No

4. If the answer to 3. is yes, what installation directories have you
chosen?

5. Where did you install Python(x,y) itself?
a. default path

6. Have you installed Python(x,y):
    b. For "All users"

7. What is your operating system?
d. Windows 8

8. Is the operating system 64 bit?
a. Yes

9. When you installed Python(x,y), were you logged in as :
b. an administrator of the machine

10. If you are using Windows Vista/7, have you installed Python(x,y):

11. Regarding installed software on your machine, how did you clean your
machine before installing Python(x,y)  (multiple answers are possible):
   First attempt (a), then (b), (c)
a. you didn't do anything, you installed Python(x,y) directly on your
machine without precaution
b. you uninstalled any previous Python distribution (including the
official .msi)
c. you cleaned the Windows registry by removing all Python-related keys
d. you cleaned the environment variables by removing all deprecated
entries

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. go to start screen and use icons to ...
2. select Spyder, IDLE (64 bits), IPython, PyLab (64 bit)
3. PC switches to desktop with no response window present
4. select Python interpreter, SciTE, Python documentation,
Pythonxy documentationand response window appears on desktop. 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
  ... see above

Please provide any additional information below.
   This is new Toshiba Satellite S55t with Intel quad processor running under Windows 8.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gdiac...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2013 at 8:15

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This affected my users as well. You should be able to start "Spyder", "IDLE", 
"IPython"  from the "Python (x,y) Launcher". Start the launcher first. On one 
of the tabs you will find icons and pull-down-menus for the various IDE's 
(Spyder, IDLE) and consoles (IPython, Console-2.00 by Bozho). Click the icon to 
start he application.

The issue regarding starting the application using the icon in the Windows 
start menu can be discovered by looking at the target of the shorcut. For 
"Spyder", the target is c:\python27\scripts\spyder.exe. This starts 
spyder_script.py also in the scripts folder calls setuptools pkg-resources 
which fails to find pyparsing. To see this, start a command shell, and cd to 
C:\python27\scripts. Make sure that c:\python27 and c:\python27\scripts are 
both on your path by typing echo %PATH% and looking for them in the screen 
output. Then type spyder and the traceback is displayed in the command window. 
While still in the command window, try starting spyder using the .bat file by 
typing spyder.bat. Or you can double click this from an explorer window. Voila! 
Spyder starts up just fine. Delete the failing shortcut from your startup 
folder and replace it with a shortcut to spyder.bat. you can change the icon by 
right clicking and selecting change icon, then selecting spyder.ico from the 
python scripts folder.

Again (as in issue #686) this is a non-starter for my users who expect things 
to just work. I can't recommend this pythonxy to my users until these issues 
are addressed.

Original comment by bwanama...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2013 at 7:14

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see https://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/issues/detail?id=693 for more info

Original comment by bwanama...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2013 at 7:18

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possible duplicate of issue #671

Original comment by bwanama...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2013 at 7:24