Hey! That did it. I'm online and connected.
Thanx so much again for your help.

Well, I've got Armory 0.95.1 running with Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 but it is just sitting there - as it was with BC 0.14.
There's a full green box in the "Initializing Bitcoin Engine" section with that little icon slowly spinning around. This is what is was doing with 0.14.
The task manager tells me that ArmoryQT.exe is indeed running and I also see a "bitcoind" process running, but it appears that nothing is really
happening.
Is it building its own database? Where can I look to see if it's doing something?
Sorry to keep giving this stuff to you (should I move to another thread?) - but just trying to figure out if I'm spinning my wheels here or if something
is going on. Do you know if this combo has run in W8.1 succesfully before.

Thanks so much for your support.

Thank you.
By downgrading to Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 - it's not going to download that huge database again, right?

I'm afraid it's still not coming up. When I run it now it complains it can't write to the logfile even though file is there and read and writable.
I tried moving it out and a few other things but exe still won't run.
Thanx for your efforts - I 'preciate it. But, I'm kinda on a time crunch to get some bitcoins so I'm thinking of trying another wallet if 0.96
ain't available soon.

Well, please remember that I was at least able to bring up Armory 95.1. It had problems connecting/communicating with the 14.0 core - but at least I could see it.
This beta version won't even come up.
As I said, I uninstalled that 95.1 version after the first error from the beta build - so I must've also removed the lang folder?? Why isn't it there for the beta?
Should I uninstall beta, go back to 95.1 and copy the lang folder? Or can someone just tell me how to get it?

Thanks for whatever you can do.

No - no folder named "lang". Only folder under where I installed Armory is one called "tcl"

OK, tried the new build. Running Windows 8.1, had Armory 95.1 installed, but uninstalled it after 1st error. Could not run the new .exe. Here's contents of the ArmoryQt.exe.log log file.
Let me know if you need anything else. I have core .14 so Armory wasn't working before I tried this anyway.

(ERROR) ArmoryUtils.pyc:3742 - Unsupported language  specified. Defaulting to English (en)
(ERROR) Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ArmoryQt.py", line 55, in <module>
NameError: name '__file__' is not defined

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ArmoryQt.py", line 55, in <module>
NameError: name '__file__' is not defined

Hello,

Installed Armory - going thru initial setup. It's downloading the bitcoin database which, of course, is huge.

Can anyone give me an idea just how huge I should expect. It's 60GB so far!

Secondly, I'm only interested in doing just one transaction - no interest in mining, etc. Do I really need to download
all these bitcoin transactions? Or can I just use a "standalone" like Electrum's?

Thx,