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Also, I have tried using Anaconda but still the same problem. \r\n![screen shot 2015-05-04 at 6 39 11 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/10142508/7457520/59bcde9a-f28d-11e4-8195-37f2049c153e.png)\r\n\r\nAny suggestion on proper removal of Spyder or setting it to default. Thanks."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/comments/99112618","html_url":"https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/2401#issuecomment-99112618","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/2401","id":99112618,"user":{"login":"goanpeca","id":3627835,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3627835?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/goanpeca","html_url":"https://github.com/goanpeca","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/goanpeca/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/goanpeca/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/goanpeca/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/goanpeca/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/goanpeca/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/goanpeca/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/goanpeca/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/goanpeca/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/goanpeca/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-05T15:18:08Z","updated_at":"2015-05-05T15:18:08Z","body":"So... the plan would be.\r\n\r\nThe restart method in `spyder.py` should have a named parameter by default `reset=False`, so that it can pass an extra argument to `restart_app.py` where we can first reset and then restart spyder.\r\n\r\nAlso I think we could have a soft reset and a hard reset, because some people cannot get spyder fixed when running reset, sometimes they need to fully erase `.spyder`"}}