Fatal Python Error on Startup (Not Responding) Can someone help me? Every time I try to run blender it keeps I get the same error, I tried to install blender as a zip file, install a previous version that I know worked for me before (on the same computer as now), install blender from Steam, and search all over the internet, here is the error message:

found bundled python: C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender/2.78/python
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize unable to load the file system codec
 File "C:\Python27\Lib\encodings\__init__.py", line 123
  raise CodecRegisteryError,\
                           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Current thread 0x00002a20 (most recent call first)


Thanks in advance for any help.
That looks like Blender is using a very old version of Python. Try taking any path in C:\Python27 off your PATH environment variable.

I'm assuming you're running Windows 10, since you clearly use Windows but don't mention which version. Right-click on "This PC", then choose "Properties". In the next screen, click "Advanced System Settings", then click on "Environment Variables". In both the box "User variables for {your name}" and "System variables" doubleclick on "Path" (or any other capitalisation) and remove anything that starts with C:\Python27.

You may want to write down the original values you removed, just so you can restore them later.