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Re: Installshield TOTAL FAILURE.

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From: Wolfram Marwik
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 00:00
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I just headed into the same problem.
After closing the process 'realplayer' in the NT task manager the
installation worked fine.
So just try closing any process not necessary to run NT before
reinstalling NT or SP4.

+++Wolfram Marwik, Switzerland


"InstallShield Software Corp." wrote:
> 
> It sounds to me that your 16bit subsystem has been disabled either by the
> trojan or
> another program. Reinstalling SP4 sounds like a good idea.
> 
> David Keating wrote in message <37285a81.0@news.installshield.com>...
> >I downloaded a demo that was in a InstallShield self extracting .exe form
> >and it just wouldn't open, I've tried many other programs I have downloaded
> >off the internet and the InstallShield self extracting .exe just wont open,
> >so i tryed to running some programs I allreddy had installed like adaptec
> >EZ-SCSI that I knew used the InstallShield Installation prossess I double
> >clicked on SETUP.EXE and it did nothing, it doesnt start or open, I'm
> >getting the same results as with ALL product using installshield No
> progress
> >bar, NOerror message, nothing.All I get is the mouse cursor changes to an
> >hourglass for a second.
> >I'm running WinNT 4 sp4 VIRUS CLEAN.
> >
> >The one and only thing that spings to mind is that I had a TROJAN recently
> >that may have deleted a few system files? is there a registry entry I can
> >delete?
> >
> >any idea's I can't install anything!!! HELP
> >
> >
> >--
> >David Keating
> >Network Operations Manager
> >Business Online (UK) plc
> >Tel. 0181 636 7108
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> >-------------  Britain's Premier Free ISP --------------
> >
> >
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From: Wolfram Marwik <wolfram.marwik@mix.ch>
Subject: Re: Installshield TOTAL FAILURE.
Date: 1999/05/27
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