Win2K Pro Setup stops at "Registers Components"
From: Ong HK (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/03/04
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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 05:14:26 -0700
IT WORKS!!! THANKS SOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!
The setup did mentioned an error later, but nevertheless,
I managed to "return" back to Win2K.
THANKS again!!!
>-----Original Message-----
>I've found a possible work-around to the problem. When
setup stops
>on "Registers Components", do the following:
>
>1) Press Shift-F10 to bring up the console.
>2) Type taskmgr and hit enter to bring up the task
manager.
>3) Click the Processes tab.
>4) Click on fixmapi.exe or rundll32.exe. The problem
may also be with
>one of the other programs that are started up during
this stage of the
>setup procedure.
>5) Click the End Process button.
>6) When the warning pops up, click Yes to kill the
process.
>
>If you don't see either of those two names in the
process list, try killing
>other processes. You can open up the task manager
before the setup
>program gets to the "Registers Components" stage and
watch the
>processes start and stop. This may give you a better
idea of which
>process is holding up the setup procedure.
>
>I noticed that the stall occurs on my machine soon after
rundll32.exe
>starts up. When I closed the task manager and reopened
it, I noticed a
>program called fixmapi.exe had basically taken the place
of
>rundll32.exe. I killed fixmapi.exe, which promptly
averted the stall.
>
>This works around the stall, but doesn't fix the cause
of the problem.
>The installation completed successfully, but I got a
couple of errors
>along the way. There were two Java install errors, and
two "copy error"
>messages which stated that msvidctl.dll could not be
copied. I chose
>to ignore these.
>
>I believe that msvidctl.dll is an activeX streaming
video component.
>Not exactly a critical system component that you can't
live without, so
>no big deal. But, what would cause this problem to
happen in the first
>place?
>
>DLL's were wiped from my system due to a furious battle
with a
>nagging virus. I won, but at the price of a few system
files. That was
>the reason I was trying to do a repair install. Perhaps
something else
>happened along the way that I'm not aware of.
>
>Hope this information helps others.
>
>.
>
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