According to ​py2exe tutorial it should just be a case of adding the Microsoft.VC90.CRT directory to the installer, but this does not work for me. Other posts suggest copying the raw DLLs into the root dist folder (also did not work).

​more info here

Our app avoids placing an icon in the task bar (window.SKIP_TASKBAR), so windows should get out of the way and let us live in the tray (aka notification area). But no, nanny-microsoft decides they know best, so we would need some code to go and hack the registry (yuk), something like what is mentioned in ​this thread.

We don't actually care if it's not recursive, so a dependency on gio.File is a lot better than a dependency on Linux specific library/code. A lot more portable!

see ​gio.File.monitor and ​this example