Re: Applications do not install to completion
From: bob (b_inskeep_at_NOSPAMyahoo.com)
Date: 10/24/04
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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:05:16 -0500
So... I reinstall XP Pro - is sp1 OK to upgrade to? what about critical
security updates?
(Is anyone having problems getting off of Microsoft web page today or is it
just me?)
peeksnib
"Bill" <a@b.c> wrote in message
news:plDed.64739$JG5.1217182@news20.bellglobal.com...
> 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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