[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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