zim.exe not start on windows xp 32

[huliangxuan]

click the zim.exe, and got the note-choice-page, then i click the enter, the app not start and no got any error log.

I found C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\zim.log:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "zim.py", line 56, in <module>
  File "zim\__init__.pyo", line 290, in main
  File "zim\gui\__init__.pyo", line 341, in __init__
  File "zim\gui\applications.pyo", line 175, in get_default_helper
  File "zim\gui\applications.pyo", line 237, in list_helpers
  File "zim\applications.pyo", line 70, in tryexec
  File "zim\applications.pyo", line 51, in _lookup
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xca in position 24: invalid continuation byte

i deleted C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.config\zim\notebooks.list then created a new note(path: E:/notes/)
Still.the zim.exe not start.....

windows xp 32bit chinese.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

This error happens when zim looks for installed applications for the first time.

I think you can work around by putting the following parameters in the preferences.conf file in the "[GtkInterface]" section:

web_browser=startfile
email_client=startfile
file_browser=startfile
text_editor=startfile

This should make zim not search again for these applications and continue with execution.

The preferences is file in your case seems to be located in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\.config\zim\

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

Can not reproduce - what version of zim was this ? If older than 0.47 it may already be fixed.

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