Installing 3rd pary applications onto a WinXP Pro SP2 Dell laptop

[Guest]

I've run across two programs that will not install on this laptop. They'll
install on other WinXP Pro SP2 machines, just not this Dell laptop. They are
Adobe Pagemaker 6.5 and Gradebook by MIG (http://www.migsirs.com). The error
message in both cases is the same:
"<drive letter>:/<directory structure>/setup.exe
"The specified path does not exist.
"Check the path and then try again.
"OK"

Pagemaker is from a CD which is a bit scratched. I tried copying the setup
directory onto a mapped network drive *and* the C:\ drive. Attempted to run
the install from both locations. Same error message in all three cases.

Gradebook I've tried to install from a mapped network drive, a USB memory
stick and the C:\ drive. Same error message in all three cases.

I've installed other applications from the same mapped network drive (ex.
Norton Antivirus, Adobe Acrobat Reader), and I've installed Adobe Photoshop
CS2 via CD-ROM.

The only thing I can think of is how old the programs are, or the code is
that went into them (16 bit?) I did see some suggestions about copying
autoexec.nt into %WindowsSystem32%. That didn't change matters. I haven't
tried the suggestion about entering the registry and deleting then
re-creating HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/VirtualDeviceDrivers entry
VDD.

Virus scan: nothing. Spyware scans (Lavasoft Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and
Destroy): nothing.

 

[Tom Willett]

I stumbled across this...it may or may not apply to you:

http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/network.html

Tom
| I've run across two programs that will not install on this laptop. They'll
| install on other WinXP Pro SP2 machines, just not this Dell laptop. They
are
| Adobe Pagemaker 6.5 and Gradebook by MIG (http://www.migsirs.com). The
error
| message in both cases is the same:
| "<drive letter>:/<directory structure>/setup.exe
| "The specified path does not exist.
| "Check the path and then try again.
| "OK"
|
| Pagemaker is from a CD which is a bit scratched. I tried copying the setup
| directory onto a mapped network drive *and* the C:\ drive. Attempted to
run
| the install from both locations. Same error message in all three cases.
|
| Gradebook I've tried to install from a mapped network drive, a USB memory
| stick and the C:\ drive. Same error message in all three cases.
|
| I've installed other applications from the same mapped network drive (ex.
| Norton Antivirus, Adobe Acrobat Reader), and I've installed Adobe
Photoshop
| CS2 via CD-ROM.
|
| The only thing I can think of is how old the programs are, or the code is
| that went into them (16 bit?) I did see some suggestions about copying
| autoexec.nt into %WindowsSystem32%. That didn't change matters. I haven't
| tried the suggestion about entering the registry and deleting then
| re-creating HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/VirtualDeviceDrivers
entry
| VDD.
|
| Virus scan: nothing. Spyware scans (Lavasoft Ad-Aware and Spybot Search
and
| Destroy): nothing.
|

 

[Guest]

I think I see the problem. This laptop is a dual CPU computer. Somehow I
doubt that programs wirtten from the days of 16-bit code would run at all.
Checking in Adobes forums, Robert Levine says that there are no Adobe
programs that are supported under Win XP64.

Dale