Re: Problem running eecutables from hard drive

The machine doesn't happen to have any hidden manufacturer (recovery or other) partitions?


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
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"Roger Fink" wrote:
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.

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