I simply cannot launch blender 2.79a whatever I do! I have reinstalled 4 times and done the same with older versions. I have also updated my drivers and installed an older version of Python in case it would fix it. Here's an image of the console just before it crashes:
https://i.imgur.com/8fCiglQ.png
After that, it launches the grey screen, holds for 1-2 seconds then just closes. I have tried using a zip and exe and neither work.
Text:
AL lib: (EE) UpdateDeviceParams: Failed to set 44100hz, got 48000hz instead
found bundled python: C: \Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\Python
Fatal Python error: Py_lnitialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
Traceback (most recent call last) :
File "C:\Python\Lib\io.py line 52, in <module>
File "C:\Python\Lib\abc.py line 147
print (f "Class: {cls. module } .{cls. qualname}", file=file)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Note: Spelling errors are due to my OCR software not being great