cannot install .net framework (any version)

[Guest]

am having one hell of a time trying to install/uninstall (and vice versa)
..net framework (any version 1.0, 1.1, 2.0) on a laptop running xpsp2.

it all began when doing windows updates and the .net 1.1 sp1 failed. since
then i've spent the last 8 hours trying to get it to work. i've followed a
half dozen MS articles, most recently, the one that walks through manual
uninstallation (kb article 320112). i'd thought i'd managed to remove all
traces of all versions of .net.

i tried to install v1.0 thinking that would be the easiest and that i'd
simply update to later versions once the most basic was installed. i get the
same problem, that is:

the install seems to go through just fine until the very end where it hangs
on "registering system.enterpriseservices.dll". it just stops here.

any thoughts? how can i 'start from scratch', as it were.

thanks,

ross aseron

 

[Damien]

am having one hell of a time trying to install/uninstall (and vice versa)
.net framework (any version 1.0, 1.1, 2.0) on a laptop running xpsp2.

it all began when doing windows updates and the .net 1.1 sp1 failed. since
then i've spent the last 8 hours trying to get it to work. i've followed a
half dozen MS articles, most recently, the one that walks through manual
uninstallation (kb article 320112). i'd thought i'd managed to remove all
traces of all versions of .net.

i tried to install v1.0 thinking that would be the easiest and that i'd
simply update to later versions once the most basic was installed. i get the
same problem, that is:

the install seems to go through just fine until the very end where it hangs
on "registering system.enterpriseservices.dll". it just stops here.

any thoughts? how can i 'start from scratch', as it were.

thanks,

ross aseron

Hi Ross,

My option in this kind of circumstance is 1) Burn everything valuable
to CD, 2) Insert windows XP install CD, 3) Reboot and run XP install. I
know it sounds like the cowards way out, but at least it a) Normally
means that your problems go away, and b) Means you have a crud-free
hard disk for another few months (until you install a few random
components and later decide you don't want them), and c) you can do it
now! Downside: I *always* manage to forget to save one valuable item in
step 1 above. And remember ablout half way through the XP install.

Damien