GNU Cash installation issue

[Geert Janssens]

On vrijdag 25 februari 2011, Leslie Radke wrote:
> Dear GNU Cash Mailing list,
> 
> I have been a long time Quicken user but recently thought I would give GNU
> Cash a try. I first installed it (GNU Cash 2.4.0) on my laptop with no
> problems, just to try it out. I was quite happy with it and installed it
> on our home desktop, the computer we use for our personal accounting. The
> installation went ok. I copied my data file to the desktop, and navigated
> to it from within the program. But after closing the program, it will
> never remember the location of the data file when I open it again. I
> uninstalled, and reinstalled the program twice to try to solve the
> problem, but no change.
> 
> Both computers (laptop and desktop) are running Windows 7. The only
> difference is that the desktop is running the 64-bit version of Windows 7.
> 
> As a work around, I just saved a shortcut to my data file. Opening it opens
> GNU Cash with my data file open. However, every time it opens it brings up
> the same first Tip of the Day. And I can't change any of the settings from
> Preferences such as defaulting to Double Line view.
> 
> Likewise if I open the program from the usual GNU Cash shortcut, it always
> opens the  "Welcome to GNU Cash" window. When I "cancel" I get a new
> window that says "Display Welcome Dialog Again?" I click "no" but it
> always comes back. It seems like none of the file locations and settings
> are remembered. On the other hand, if I close the program with an account
> open, it will open to the same account again the next time.
> 
> So what went wrong with the install process? Thanks for any help you can
> give.
> 
I'm not sure what went wrong. There have been other reports similar to this 
one, but we never managed to figure out why exactly this happens in some 
installations, while it doesn't happen in others.

My first guess is that your firewall is blocking network connections to 
"localhost" (which is in fact your pc itself).

Which firewall software are you using ? And can you try to figure out if it is 
blocking connections to/from "localhost" and/or "127.0.0.1" ?

Geert