I changed .emacs to:
(add-to-list 'load-path "c:/lisp/slime") (setq inferior-lisp-program "c:/lisp/clisp/clisp -K full") (require 'slime) (slime-setup) (slime)
Now I get inferior-lisp buffer but slime menu options are still greyed out and emacs is still polling like this:
Polling "c:/DOCUME~1/h/LOCALS~1/Temp/slime.9068".. (Abort with `M-x slime-abort-connection'.)