RE: Installation problem

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> This issue had many causes. It is hard to guess, anyway you may try to
> check the follow steps.
> 1. Free Drive Space up on the System Drive
> a) Clean out the Temp Directory
> Start > Run and type %Temp% and then click Ok
> Select All and Delete
> b) Clean out the Internet Cache
> Open Internet Explorer
> Select Tools > Internet Options
> Click on the button Delete Files
> Click on the button Clear History
> c) Move the Virtual Memory to another drive
> Windows 2000
> Right click on My Computer and select Properties
> Select the Advanced Tab
> Click the button Performance Options
> Click Change
> Change the settings
> Click Ok until back to the Desktop
> Restart the computer
> 2. Download and install the latest MDAC from the Microsoft Data Access
> website
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/dataaccess
> .asp
>
> 3. Register the Windows Installer Engine - SOX030430700035
> Start > Run and type msiexec /unregister and then click Ok
> Start > Run and type msiexec /regserver and then click Ok
>
> Also I think you may try to post in the setup queue as below.
> microsoft.public.vstudio.setup

With all due respect, I find it hard to believe that this is the likely
cause of the problem. The machine I'm running it on is up-to-date and has
plenty of disk space. Moreover, I tried it on another XP SP2 machine with a
similar problem (4119 error instead of 4120 but it's still a "Darwin" service
problem). On that machine however it does run from the command line without a
problem. I still have no idea what the free download manager app is all about
on the first machine however, given that I'm launching "dotnetfx.exe" (why is
some foreign app then starting unless it's being triggered by something that
"dotnetfx.exe" is doing - I assume this app has nothing to do with MS but
even then it's strange). Note that I'm a (very experienced) Windows developer
and I need to launch this silently from within an MSI app on an arbitrary
customer's machine. Even if the things you mentioned above were having some
impact (possible but I wouldn't bet on it), I can't ask customers to do this
nor can I be expected to do it programatically. I simply need to silently
install the .NET framework in an MSI application and need to get to the
bottom of this. I'll try the other newsgroup you mentioned in the meantime.
Thanks.
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