Can't get gnucash to start on Windows

[Colin Law]

2010/1/26 C.E. Morrison <sail43 at bellsouth.net>:
> Make sure your firewall is allowing gnucash.  I seem to remember there are
> two files that appear to need to access a network on startup and if your
> firewall is preventing them from doing what they need to, the application
> won't start.

Are you saying GnuCash cannot be run on a PC with no network
connection?  Surely that cannot be right.

In fact I have just disabled networking on my PC running Ubuntu, and
GC 2.3.7+ runs with no obvious problem.

Colin