Topic: Electrum dont RUN on windows 7 (Read 277 times)

Yes, you can send to any address from Electrum using any wallet type. The only restriction you may find is that some exchanges will not yet let you withdraw to a bech32 address. So if you made a Segwit wallet with Electrum that would be an issue but you can easily get around it by keeping 2 wallets. As you already said it is a standard legacy wallet this will not affect you.

Once your current wallet is created with a seed, it's going to be a Standard wallet forever. This means you'll need to create a new Segwit wallet in electrum inorder to switch. This is easy to do, all you need to do is go to File -> New -> Click Segwit this time and you'll get a new wallet with a new seed. Note this seed down and you'll now have a segwit wallet. You'll be able to swtich between your standard wallet (.dat file) and your Segwit wallet (.dat file) by going to File --> Open and then selecting one of those wallets.

Also, yes from your standard wallet which may be addresses starting with '1' or multi-sig addresses starting with '3' you can send and receive Bitcoins to any other addresses starting with 1 or 3 (may this be a multi-sig standard address or a segwit address).

this address generated by EXchanger automatically that used for deposit . can i send coin to this address of electrum standard wallet without problem ?

It's not possible to tell if that is a Segwit or a Multisig address as it has never been used. The only way to tell would be from the input scripts if it had sent a tx.

If you made that address in Electrum then it cannot be a Segwit address as Electrum uses Bech32 address that start "bc1".

Where did that address come from?

thank alot sir . can i chane between standard or segwit any time i want ? already i choiced " standard " ..


also plz lets to me know ... this adreess is segwit ?

37mwap2iX7qf1mENukNTvyr4TZ6S3JWGrX

if my wallet is standard can i send to this address or receive from this address ?

  thanks alot for your clarification reply

Standard here means 'legacy' addresses.

This depends on how much transactions you often perform between different recipients or if you're receiving a lot of transactions from other parties. Basically legacy addresses are ones that begin with '1' and Segwit addresses start with 'BC1' (in electrum by default) or '3' (to do that follow the guide here as Electrum doesn't create these by default: https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-a-p2sh-segwit-wallet-with-electrum/)

Segwit addresses starting with 3 are most backward compatible right now, and it'll allow your send and receive funds to and from anybody using any type of address (may it be legacy or segwit)

Segwit addresses starting with bc1 are also backward compatible, but they're very new and only very few wallets / exchanges support receiving / paying from it. Any electrum user with version 3.0 and above can send and receive bitcoins from legacy to bc1 segwit addresses and vice versa, but this isn't the same with all other wallets, cause they still need to develop the code for this and implement it. Segwit addresses will greatly help reduce you fee by a large percentage when you're sending money unlike legacy addresses cause the seggregated witness part is separated from the transaction block to save block space. This is why many are migrating to segwit addresses.

Some articles for your knowledge: https://btcmanager.com/electrum-3-0-first-wallet-enable-bech32-segwit-addresses/
Bitcointalk question: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/legacy-vs-segwit-wallets-whats-the-difference-2251039

If I were you I would use Segwit addresses starting with '3' for regular transactions with anyone and everyone, where as I'd also store a majority of my savings on bc1 addresses cause soon these type of addresses will be utilized. Segwit addresses starting with '3' are just a workaround until people finally start using bc1 addresses, also Segwit addresses starting with '3' lose about 10% in fee as compared to 'bc1' addresses. On the other hand, if you're confused, there's no harm in using a legacy address either. Choose it if you want to.

Choose what it suits you most.

The Standard option will create a Legacy wallet usually with an address starting with 1. This is the normal bitcoin wallet which was used since the beginning of Electrum. Fees are higher though.

The Segwit option will create a Segwit wallet where addresses starts differently but this option make transactions with low fees. I haven't tried it myself as I am only using Standard. Someone else can add to this reply and explain you in detail what Segwit does except lower fees.

thank you so much for your HELP

after installation this update , that worked and now i can RUN electrum .

sorry just a question ...

which option i must choice in this picture :

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There's a requirement mentioned on the download's page of Electrum "Note: Some old versions of Windows might need to install the KB2999226 Windows update." Do you have this update installed on your Windows 7 machine?

If not, you can download it manually from Microsoft's website - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49077 and install it. This should probably fix the universal C runtime issue that you're seeing there.

Electrum's installer should've installed the python library for windows by default. It could be that the above error prevented it from completing the installation?

Edit: Can confirm that installing the KB will fix the missing Python.dll issue as well. Reference: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/3171

I installed successfully ELEctrum on windows 7 .

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but while i want RUN i get these errors :

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and next this :

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MY OS is windows 7 32BIT  + service pack 1

lets i remind i downloaded  " windows installer " file of ELECTRUM site .

thank you for any HELP