Some components of installation of python(x,y) 2.7.2.1 not working

I'm new to python. Python(x,y) attracted me, as I am experienced with matlab. 
Thanks for any help. Regards, Bill

If relevant, please answer to the following questions:
1. What version of Python(x,y) have you installed?
2.7.2.1
2. Which components have you installed (Python(x,y) installer: component
page):
    a. Have you selected the "Recommended" component selection?
Yes
    b. Have you selected the "Full" component selection?
c. Have you selected manually plugins in the component list? What
plugins?
3. Have you selected the option "Customize installation directories"?
   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 C:\Program Files (x86)\pythonxy
6. Have you installed Python(x,y):
    b. For "All users"
7. What is your operating system?
c. Windows 7
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):
a. simply by double-clicking on the installer
While I was logged on with admin acct

11. Regarding installed softwares on your machine, how did you clean your
machine before installing Python(x,y) (multiple answers are possible):
    b. you uninstalled any previous Python distribution (BUT the including official .msi was still in download directory)

I have the following problems.

1. All the command prompts open in bare bones with message

IOError: File'ipythonrc.ini' not found in current or supplied 
directories:u'C:\\Users\\BillAdm\\_ipy
thon'

2. None of the enhanced consoles work. 

3. python(x,y) comes up. All the demos seem to work, the interactive all come 
up in the command window, but only as bare bones as above. None come up in the 
shell. Spyder opens. I change to a directory that
has collection of python files I want to try, I set it as
the current consoles working directory, and click on main.py, the programs 
produces it's window and seems to work, but I also get a pop up titled wxPython 
stdout/stderr containing:

Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\threading.py", line 552, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\monitor.py", line 564, in run
    self.update_remote_view()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\monitor.py", line 445, in update_remote_view
    remote_view = make_remote_view(ns, settings, more_excluded_names)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\monitor.py", line 65, in make_remote_view
    more_excluded_names=more_excluded_names)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\monitor.py", line 54, in get_remote_data
    excluded_names=excluded_names)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\dicteditorutils.py", line 236, in globalsfilter
    filters=filters))
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\dicteditorutils.py", line 201, in is_supported
    if not is_editable_type(value):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\dicteditorutils.py", line 114, in is_editable_type
    return get_color_name(value) not in (UNSUPPORTED_COLOR, CUSTOM_TYPE_COLOR)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\dicteditorutils.py", line 103, in get_color_name
    np_dtype = get_numpy_dtype(value)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\dicteditorutils.py", line 40, in get_numpy_dtype
    return obj.dtype.type
NameError: Unknown C global variable

I can close the program window, and the error message, but I can do nothing in 
the Spyder window which says
in the title Spyder (Not Responding) and the cursor is
a blue circle. I must kill it with the task manager.
This is what happens if I run in the current Python interpreter. If I choose a 
new dedicated interpreter, I get the same error popup, but Spyder does not 
hang. However if I try and run Debug ctrl-F5 rather than F5, I get the (dbg) 
prompt, but typing n causes it to hang.  If I choose external system terminal, 
nothing happens at all. 

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. The first (few) times I tried this I did not have the problem. Now it always 
occurs. It doesnt matter if I'm
logged on with the admin acct I installed with or a
regular user account.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by billandl...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2012 at 7:42
tower429 / pythonxy

Some components of installation of python(x,y) 2.7.2.1 not working #510
