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Thanks for the info guys. I have the general dep setting set to check essential windows files only, so why should it check the python executables? I changed it to "on for everything except..." but when I try to exclude the python executables from dep, I get an error that 64bit executables can't be excluded - yes, I am using the 64bit version of python with the 64bit version of pycrypto.

Edit: I tried installing the 32bit versions, and it is working fine. It seems the problem is with the 64bit versions, and although my memory is not what it used to be, I seem to recall that it used to work with the 64bit python too in the past... oh well