[thelist] install EXEs not doing anything

Christopher Joseph christopher at ideadesigners.com
Tue Jan 13 09:43:40 CST 2004


sounds like a duff or unfinished previous install. Clear out all 
*sensible* temporary files from /temp, /winnt/temp, /Documents and 
settings/YOUR USER/local Settings/temp

avoid deleting folders like 'cookies', 'history', 'userdata'. SO: back 
up the directories first just in case. I would also try re-installing 
after deleting the stuff in temp folders (i.e. do not reboot in the 
interim). That way if it still doesn't install you can put your copies 
back and it *probably* won't cuase havoc.

Generally TEMP stuff should be OK to delete but I have noticed that 
recent version of updates for my win2k machine have started putting 
oddities in their that don't seem quite as deletable as before.

...bit garbled but HTH

Dunstan Orchard wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I've recently found that I'm unable to install any new programs - Adobe 
> Acrobat and a program called Cumulus both failed.
> 
> I double-click the install exe file, the egg-timer appears for a few 
> seconds, and then... nothing. It doesn't hang or anything, just, nothing 
> happens.
> 
> Would NAV be a problem when installing new apps?
> I've tried disabling the auto-protect feature, but that didn't do any good.
> 
> Any ideas? I'm on XP Pro, and I'm an admin.
> 
> Thanks very much - Dunstan
> 
> p.s. I tried running the exe from within a cmnd window in the hope that 
> might generate a visble error, but the same thing happened, and no error 
> was produced.
> 
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