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Every time I click on an icon for "Internet Explorer" and a number of other
icons like "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer" or "Control Panel" this
window pops up:
"Windows Installer"
"The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is
unavailable. Click OK to try again or enter an alternative path to a folder
containing the installation package 'AcroPro.msi' in the box below."
Now in the box below there are two options: (1) Adobe Acrobat 4.0: Disk 1
and (2) C:\Program files\Adobe\........
When I click Cancel and close the window I can work with any of the
applications as long as I want.
My system is Win2K Pro. I bought this very powerful Dell just 5 months ago.
It is top of the line.
I need to give you a bit of recent history. Everything worked fine until I
downloaded the damn Mozilla Firefox and ThunderBird. It messed up my
hotmail.com accounts and I decided to uninstall them. I did and realized
that their uninstall did not remove any of the their settings. Half of my
applications did not work. ShellExecute wouldn't work, etc.
At this point I realized that I failed to save the registry before the
Mozilla Install. I wish Mozilla with all it developers will burn in hell
but even that won't help me. Anyway, after some tinkering I was left with
the only radical solution: I went to the registry and removed everything
Mozilla related manually. ShellExecute was restored but some other things I
do not even remember what still did not work. I have two more DELL machines
purchased at the same time. I dumped the registry of one of them onto a
flash memory key and tried to export it into this computer. The export was
allegedly aborted but I found that references to many of software on the
other machine migrated to my sick computer. One of them is Adobe Acrobat Pro
7.0. And then the whole thing I described above started but the messages
were referring to Acrobat 7.0 and I had only generic 4.0 version which came
with the OS.
I just purchased a full version of Acrobat 6.0 Pro and decided to install it
on the "sick" machine to give it something to chew on. The install refused
to proceed and the error message was that I have "an active version of
Acrobat" on my machine. In fact I did not. Only the registry was full of
references. I ran reedit and manually changed all 7.0 to 4.0. It did not
help at all. I still cannot install Acrobat 6.0. It gives me the same error
message. I still get error messages when I click on My Computer.
I have another machine with no Acrobat 7.0, only 4.0 on it. I may try to
import its registry. Is there a better way to get it straight short of
uninstalling and reinstalling the whole OS.
Please help.
icons like "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer" or "Control Panel" this
window pops up:
"Windows Installer"
"The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is
unavailable. Click OK to try again or enter an alternative path to a folder
containing the installation package 'AcroPro.msi' in the box below."
Now in the box below there are two options: (1) Adobe Acrobat 4.0: Disk 1
and (2) C:\Program files\Adobe\........
When I click Cancel and close the window I can work with any of the
applications as long as I want.
My system is Win2K Pro. I bought this very powerful Dell just 5 months ago.
It is top of the line.
I need to give you a bit of recent history. Everything worked fine until I
downloaded the damn Mozilla Firefox and ThunderBird. It messed up my
hotmail.com accounts and I decided to uninstall them. I did and realized
that their uninstall did not remove any of the their settings. Half of my
applications did not work. ShellExecute wouldn't work, etc.
At this point I realized that I failed to save the registry before the
Mozilla Install. I wish Mozilla with all it developers will burn in hell
but even that won't help me. Anyway, after some tinkering I was left with
the only radical solution: I went to the registry and removed everything
Mozilla related manually. ShellExecute was restored but some other things I
do not even remember what still did not work. I have two more DELL machines
purchased at the same time. I dumped the registry of one of them onto a
flash memory key and tried to export it into this computer. The export was
allegedly aborted but I found that references to many of software on the
other machine migrated to my sick computer. One of them is Adobe Acrobat Pro
7.0. And then the whole thing I described above started but the messages
were referring to Acrobat 7.0 and I had only generic 4.0 version which came
with the OS.
I just purchased a full version of Acrobat 6.0 Pro and decided to install it
on the "sick" machine to give it something to chew on. The install refused
to proceed and the error message was that I have "an active version of
Acrobat" on my machine. In fact I did not. Only the registry was full of
references. I ran reedit and manually changed all 7.0 to 4.0. It did not
help at all. I still cannot install Acrobat 6.0. It gives me the same error
message. I still get error messages when I click on My Computer.
I have another machine with no Acrobat 7.0, only 4.0 on it. I may try to
import its registry. Is there a better way to get it straight short of
uninstalling and reinstalling the whole OS.
Please help.