Re: Problem running eecutables from hard drive
- From: "Roger Fink" <fink@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 13:47:17 -0400
I've been without an internet connection for the better part of a day, which
has delayed this response - sorry. In this regard I'm delighted to mention
the name of my internet service provider: VERIZON.
Working backwards here, I recall now that the Paintshop Pro 7.04 update
always had a glitch in it, and that the company's advice was to just go
through and complete the installation, as the dialog box allows you to do.
It has been awhile since I'd installed it and I had forgotten there was a
problem, however benign.
As far as the 6 or so Office 97 updates are concerned, executing them from a
removable
flash drive did work, so as a practical matter I've been able to solve the
immediate problem. I don't think corrupted memory was an issue because I
reverted back to the original 1gb module (it's buried under the keyboard, so
it never left the machine) and the error message persisted. However, since
that point I've opened one downloaded executable without a problem.
Hard drive is 80gb. Free space is 22gb on 40gb of formatted space. C is the
only partition.
The Microsoft updates are obviously old, and I think the problem may be the
difference they present to the installer versus the one that launched OK,
but this is from an outsider looking in.
I'd like to fix this because you don't want to knowingly have a corrupted
file
or whatever the problem is in the OS. As a practical matter, if I've
experienced the totality of the problem, then I should be able to live with
it if I have
to.
Dave Patrick wrote:
"Roger Fink" wrote:
When I try to install saved program updates to Office 97 by
launching them from my hard drive I get the following message:
Error:
Setup could not find a drive with [xxxkb] free disk space to install
the program. Please free up some space first and retry or press
cancel to exit setup.
As an experiment I transferred the files to a flash drive. When run
from that location they installed with no problem.
*** How much disk space is available incuding the pagefile?
I then tried to install a large update to Paint Shop Pro 7 from the
hard drive and I got the following message:
Error:
The file C:\Winnt\System32\msvcp60.dll is in use and cannot be
installed. Please exit all other applications and retry. Press
Ignore to not install the file and Abort to cancel the installation.
I transferred that update to the flash drive as well, but this time
the message error message was repeated.
*** Try again from a 'Safe Mode' boot.
Installing programs from CD works fine.
Not sure if this is a factor, but in addition to my usual buggering
around,
yesterday I upgraded the memory on the laptop from 1gb to 2gb. The
upgrade used the correct module and was within the stated capacity
for the machine (2gb).
What's going on here? How can I fix this?
*** If you suspect bad RAM you can test it.
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
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