Here's a Poser 5 bug that just cropped up. Now whenever I start Poser 5, the python pop-up window loads up too. Can't get rid of it either, clicking on the red X does nothing. I tried running the service pack 4. Didn't help. I tried re-installing Poser. Didn't help. Even unintalled and re-intalled Poser. Even renamed the old runtime so that when I reinstalled it created a new runtime. So it should be a completely new set up, right? But that silly python box still pops up when I start Poser. There must be some sort of setting somewhere, an .ini file or and .xml file or soemthing that is doing this. But it would seem with a fresh install that creates a new runtime that what ever bad setting there was wouldn't be in a fresh install. Oddly enough, if I select python script from window in the bar at the top, it putsthe pop-up in a different place and then I can click the red X to turn it off. So it is more of a nuicanse than something that will stop me from working. Any ideas?

Saw your post in the Poser forum, and still no idea what the problem is. Please post a screenshot.

But what I really want is to not have the pop-up load up in the first place when I first start poser. How do I do this?

Not heard of this before, how long were you using P5 before this started happening ?

Nothing obvious seems to refer to the visibility of this window.
Only it's location is mentioned in poser.ini

If you don't use the buttons for running scripts you might be able to move it out the way by altering the co-ordinates to something off-screen (take a backup of the file just in case).

Over a year. Just cropped up Saturday. The problem is I don't want to disable python because I do use it, and like the buttons. I just don't like the idea of it popping up when I start. I was hoping there was a simple fix but I guess I'll just have to live with it.

Not disabling just moving off screen (hopefully). You'd still be able to run scripts from the file menu and it's simple to move back if you know your going to need it. Only thing left to try would be a re-install in a completely fresh directory as whatever's causing it must be in the same directory as poser.exe, as you've seem to have eliminated the Runtime as where the problem is.

That was my next thought. Or even just putting it on a separate drive as a test. But I sure would like to know what is causing the problem. It would be a lot easier to fix the bug than to keep fooling around with re-installs.

One thing that happens with P4 and PP is the poser.rsr get corrupted, but a fresh install should have cured that.
However this file does get changed and the uninstaller may have left it in the install directory as the details wouldn't match the original.
So try an install to a new directory or be sure to clean up everything in the install root.

To stop this causing trouble keep a copy of poser.rsr (once you got things set up the way you like) and use it to replace when necessary.

So I went ahead and renamed the old Poser directory and then intalled Poser in a fresh directory and that seems to have fixed it. What a pain. Thanks for the time about saving the poser.rsr.