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Windows Installer---ARGH!

lost my hard drive the other day (good backups, thank god!) --so here I am on Saturday trying to put everything back togethor..

After an apparently successful Windows Installer installation of SW2003, it generates the following error message:

"The Solidworks service pack manager needs to reboot the computer in order to complete the initial installation of Windows Installer. Do you want to reboot the computer now?"

Unfortunately, even if let it reboot, it generates the same message every time the machine boots...

I've already done a complete uninstall of SW (including removing Registry entries) & reinstall , which does no good--interestingly, I get the above error message even when SW is not installed. Among other things, this seems to prevent me from instaling SPs... But SP0 of 2003 seems to work fine...

Anybody got any suggestions?

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Michael
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Michael- If you are installing SolidWorks Office or Office Pro, look in the registry for related software folders such as PDMWorks and Photoworks, ToolBox, etc. and delete those too. Also, did you pick the C: drive for the installation target? I also delete all remaining folders under program files, again looking for related programs. If I were in your shoes, I would consider a complete format of the hard drive and then a complete reinstall of all programs. I actually do this every 60 days or so, it really helps maintain fast computer speeds. Good Luck, Devon T. Sowell

formatting link

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Devon T. Sowell

Well, not to rub salt in the wound, but if you're installing 2003, you have the option of a non-Windows Installer install, which simplifies a lot of things.

Anyway, now that you have this problem, it is a Win 2000 SP4 problem. The message will go away if you delete the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > RunOnce good luck

matt

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matt

thanks for the tip--the registry edit solved the problem...

don't know what came over me that I didn't just use the traditional installer--don't have time to redo it at this point tho.

thanks again.

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Michael

huh? I've got something like 6 hours into patching the OS, re-installing software, reconfiguring, blah, blah, blah... I find it hard to imagine that the performance improvement given by a periodic reformat would be anywhere near enough to justify that kind of time investment

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Michael

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