Closed as a duplicate of Bug 34407
Just checked the new 3.4.2 release and have to report that I'm still unable to start GrampsPortable. Same problem as with 3.4.1
After double clicking the exe it took about 30s (without any noticeable action) until Win7 displays a python has crashed dialog:
Name of application: pythonw.exe, Version: 0.0.0.0, Timestamp: 0x4f84a6ca
Name of module: libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll, Version: 2.24.8.0, Timestamp: 0x4eca77af
Exception: 0xc0000005
System: Win 7 Enterprise
And if I replace the libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll with an older version python keeps crashing due to the incorrect unicode to ascii conversion already mentioned at version 3.4.1. So this is still not fixed also.