pending installation.

[Ben888]

Help! Trying to install Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 (standard). It needs
to install Visual C ++ 8.0 Runtime for DNS. That installation keeps failing.

It says that there's some sort of previous installation / reboot pending,
and to reboot to complete that installation. As far as I know, there aren't
any pending installations. I've rebooted three times, and that hasn't helped.

What the heck do I do now? How do I find and cancel any pending
installations? I don't know enough to mess around with registry entries, if
it's not absolutely necessary.

 

[Noel Paton]

A total guess (which if I'm right will probablyhelp) ...... - you're running
Norton protection?


--
Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006)
(CrashFixPC)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk

 

[Jim]

Help! Trying to install Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 (standard). It needs
to install Visual C ++ 8.0 Runtime for DNS. That installation keeps failing.

It says that there's some sort of previous installation / reboot pending,
and to reboot to complete that installation. As far as I know, there aren't
any pending installations. I've rebooted three times, and that hasn't helped.

What the heck do I do now? How do I find and cancel any pending
installations? I don't know enough to mess around with registry entries, if
it's not absolutely necessary.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

 

[Noel Paton]

I doubt VERY much that the WICU utility will help here - good as it is, it
won't catch the sort of thing that the OP is seeing here.... in fact it will
only catch things that are installed by MSI files, IIRC

--
Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006)
(CrashFixPC)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk

 

[Kelly]

Three strikes your almost out~

http://nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/support/default.asp

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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

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