Dear list, I am trying to use dathena, dartemis and dhephaestus in Demeter 0.9.17 package on Windows XP ("XP mode" on Windows 7), but neither Athena nor Artemis nor Hephaestus works. On Windows 7 (both 32 bit and 64 bit), everything works. The symptoms are similar to the latest post's, the command prompt and the splash screen appears momentarily, disappears, and then nothing happens. In contrast, (stand-alone) Atoms opens. Reinstallation of Demeter does not solve this booting problem. I checked MinGW and demeter.mru problems reported on this ML, but there are no other MinGW installation or corrupted detemer.mru. OS: Windows XP on Virtual PC ("XP mode" on Windows 7 32 bit) (Japanese version) (All updates are applied.) Demeter: 0.9.17 (on standard path C:\strawberry...) (ver. 0.9.13.1 also does not work.) In addition, I've heard that this phenomenon happens at least on Windows XP in many other real machines. (not on virtual machines) Any suggestions would be appreciated. Best regards, ASAKURA, Hiroyuki -- ASAKURA, Hiroyuki Designated Research Associate Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Nagoya University, Japan h.asakura@nusr.nagoya-u.ac.jp