Vidalia cannot authenticate Tor, control socket not connected
I use the latest Tor Bundle under XP (SP3). When starting Vidalia, I get the message: "Vidalia was unable to authenticate to Tor (control socket is not connected) Please check your port authentication settings." In the message log of Vidalia, it says "Tor software is not running". I have checked the FAQ and googled this, but nothing worked, neither changing the control port nor installing SP3 again. I have an old version of Tor, this has the same error, but it was working before. The computer is running fine, no probs with the web or anything else, device manager looks fine, no errors. The files are where they have to be (tor.exe and torrc). When starting Tor directly through the tor.exe, it connects and says circuit could have been built, the task manager shows it is running. Is this a XP error? Help is very much appreciated.
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Username: frank21