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Problem with installer on Windows 2003

dschmalz — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:18:28 GMT

Hello,Experimenting with the 1.3dev version for Windows, I encountered two problems:1) After a successful installation on a Windows 2003 machine using the 1.3dev full installer (exe file) and an uninstallation using the provided uninstaller. a second installation fails after that all files are unpac

Re: Problem with installer on Windows 2003

steve — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:33:22 GMT

Hi,

Did you reboot your machine after uninstallation?
Windows sometimes needs a reboot to clear out the old service definitions - it can mark them as deleted but they are still present until you reboot, and because they are still present if you try to perform a re-install the service setup will fail…

Steve

Re: Problem with installer on Windows 2003

dschmalz — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:35:11 GMT

Hi Steve,

Thanks for replying.

Yes this has been done, I also deleted the user temp directory (…\Local Settings\temp), rebooted and tried to reinstall. You're probably right, it has something to do with the services since the reinstallation fails, I feel, at this moment.

Just to make sure, I'll give another try on the same machine and report if successful.

Thanks,
David

Re: Problem with installer on Windows 2003

dschmalz — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:04:45 GMT

Strangely enough, the problem was related to using Winzip started as a daemon. Even after a reboot, this application had kept a uncompressed version of the file and was making the installer fail.

Deactivating Winzip (tray icon) was the solution.

David

Re: Problem with installer on Windows 2003

steve — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:47:06 GMT

Hello,

Thanks for letting us know what was causing the problem.

Steve