Re: Applications do not install to completion

From: Bill (a_at_b.c)
Date: 10/24/04


Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 21:14:07 -0400

Unfortunately, I think it is too late. The best thing would have been to
avoid installing SP2. I believe Microsoft was very premature in releasing
this!

"peeksnib" <peeksnib@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:58E02ACC-07A2-4FF6-83F6-A6AF5D4992BE@microsoft.com...
> I am on xp Pro sp2. I'm also running Norton Internet Secruty for those
> interested.
>
> I recently installed the XP Pro - upgrading to sp2. I have been attemting
> to install software. I had been able to install software - I have office
> 2000 installed, etc... I was attempting to intall Acrobat 5.0.5 and it
kept
> hanging up on 'creating acrobat distiller printer'. OK fine - thought I
> would keep going and come back to that later. I started to intall studio
> .net 2003 and had to go to the 'pre requisites' to install some software.
> The first one, 'runtime scripts' I think, never completed. I had to stop
the
> installation and re-boot. The next time I tried installing .net. I had
to
> once again do the pre-requisite. Amazingly, the 'runtime script' was no
> longer required. It started installing the .net framework 1.1. Fact is,
> it's still 'installing' as I write this. It occurred to me that the
common
> thread is that none of these installation goes to completion! You know,
the
> 'xxxx successfully installed'.
>
> Anybody have similar experiences - suggestions - whatever?
>



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