set up failure

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I am having problems with my new computer. It came with Windows Vista
installed. Lately I have not been able to install any new programs. What can
I do to fix this issue?
 
greydragonhd said:
I am having problems with my new computer. It came with Windows
Vista installed. Lately I have not been able to install any new
programs. What can I do to fix this issue?
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Start by giving more information. What programs are you installing?
What are the error messages?
 
One of the programs is Norton 2008 and another is a program from the Army.
The error message states the set up failed.
 
One of the programs is Norton 2008 and another is a program from the Army.
The error message states the set up failed.

Start by giving more information. What programs are you installing?
What are the error messages?
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Turn off all open files.

I know I once has setup.exe break on NT and it was because I'd set the
number of open files in AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS from 32 to 320
which it turns out must be less than 255 - it took me 2 months,
numerous calls to Microsoft a complete rebuild of my computer from the
vendor who deemed it the power supply before I sat down and went
through each step very carefully with a trace on what the boot was
doing. I didn't even know NT bothered with those files - but I was
dual booting NT with some Win Home - probably Win 98. So I doubt
that's the problem but think what you've changed.
 
One of the programs is Norton 2008 and another is a program from the Army.
The error message states the set up failed.

Start by giving more information. What programs are you installing?
What are the error messages?
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Incidentally I did install Norton 2008 under Vista - but Partition
Magic is not yet upgraded to be Vista compatible - in fact it might
destroy your partitions. Ghost 12 is not as good as Perfect Image
from Avanquest for some drive cloning tasks in Vista - I am very
suspicious of Ghost although it is installed.
 
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Regards,

Richard Urban
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