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January 16, 2018, 08:03:50 AM
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Thanks Quin! It helped and I have installed Electrum successfully.

You're welcome.

But I'm not sure I've setup the wallet correctly or not.
Because I wanted to get P2SH nested segwit (P2SH-P2WPKH) which will look like normal P2SH addresses (start with 3).
During setup I have created Bech32 wallet unintentionally or maybe not, but I didn't saw any option for P2SH.

Nested Segwit (P2SH-P2WPKH) was only ever meant as a tempory transition to native bech32 Segwit. Electrum decided to just go straight to the end goal so it is not an option. A good feature of Electrum is it is easy to maintain multiple wallets so I'd just keep 2, 1 for Segwit and 1 for legacy.

And it is still not connected to the network. Lets see how long it takes.

That should happen almost immediately. Try changing the server it is connecting to.
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January 16, 2018, 07:38:13 AM
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Are you using an old version of Windows? If so look at this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/just-updated-electrum-305-wallet-and-its-not-working-somebody-please-help-2709897 for the solution. You may need to install KB2999226 Windows update and/or the Windows C++ redistributable.

Thanks Quin! It helped and I have installed Electrum successfully.

But I'm not sure I've setup the wallet correctly or not.
Because I wanted to get P2SH nested segwit (P2SH-P2WPKH) which will look like normal P2SH addresses (start with 3).
During setup I have created Bech32 wallet unintentionally or maybe not, but I didn't saw any option for P2SH.

And it is still not connected to the network. Lets see how long it takes.

 
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January 16, 2018, 05:01:59 AM
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Are you using an old version of Windows? If so look at this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/just-updated-electrum-305-wallet-and-its-not-working-somebody-please-help-2709897 for the solution. You may need to install KB2999226 Windows update and/or the Windows C++ redistributable.


I'm using windows 7 32bit. I will take a look at your given thread. I hope it will help.
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January 16, 2018, 04:54:41 AM
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Are you using an old version of Windows? If so look at this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/just-updated-electrum-305-wallet-and-its-not-working-somebody-please-help-2709897 for the solution. You may need to install KB2999226 Windows update and/or the Windows C++ redistributable.
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January 16, 2018, 04:16:55 AM
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Today I tried to install Electrum wallet but the following error shows when I double click to access the wallet.
Installation process was successful, but the error shows when I click the .exe file to access the wallet.

ERROR 1 after the double click.



ERROR 2 when I click ok from the error 1



I hope I have described the issue efficiently. Please help!
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