Re: Still Having Problems with VS.NET 2003

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From: Eddie Hadley (eddieh_at_ontology.demon.co.uk)
Date: 07/16/04


Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:56:27 +0100

Michael,

Are you running Ashampoo WinOptimizer Platinum Suite by any chance?

I have had problems that I tracked down to this one (v1.22) - it was a bit
overzealous with its registry cleaning with VS.NET. 2003.

It did succumb to 'repairing' from the CDs though, and didn't need
un/reinstalling in my case.

    Eddie

"Michael C" <michaelco@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm still having problems with VS.NET 2003 running on my XP machine. I
> finally decided I might as well uninstall completely and reinstall from
> scratch. But lo and behold it won't let me uninstall... It gets stuck
> about 2/3rds of the way through the uninstall (based on the progress bar)
> and hangs for a very, very long time (a few hours last time). Then it
seems
> to give up and returns an error message stating that it cannot uninstall.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to uninstall? It also hangs when trying to
> reinstall on top of the current installation. I have reinstalled all of
the
> pre-requisites from scratch, but that didn't seem to help either.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael C.
>
>



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