Python Installation possible cause of registry issues preventing login to the computer.

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

2. Which components have you installed (Python(x,y) installer: component
page):
    b. Have you selected the "Full" component selection?

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

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?
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

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 (including the
official .msi)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Installation of the latest Python xy and more than 1 restart
2. I'm not entirely sure it is Python, but a system restore to before Python 
was installed has fixed the issue on two occasions.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Registry corrupted, unable to log in to my user profile as the service is 
unavailable. System restore has corrected this on two occasions.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by morgan.m...@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2012 at 3:04

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It is possible some system utility conflicts with python(x, y) - typically it 
is the QT dlls.

Can't really help here anymore.

Original comment by grizzly.nyo on 18 Apr 2013 at 9:21

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