Tim Fisher

> You need to manually add the packages from your venv to your environment before you try loading them. I'm not sure what this means. Copy the venv to System's...

Oh I see. So the `site_packages` folder (that contains the `pywin32.pth` file) is what needs to be fed to `site.addsitedir()` which adds it to the environment (aka `sys.path`). In the...

> The example program contains an error. The hash-bang line should not reference the systems python. It ought to reference the python interpreter in the virtual environment, and the Python...

Sounds like you hit on the key, which is that `pythonservice.exe` doesn't use `py.exe` method of finding the interpreter, and it doesn't provide any way to select the interpreter explicitly....

I'm not sure which utilities require administrative privileges to run, but those utilities could simply be disabled or hidden in a per-user install. Then at least some of the utilities...