Installing Vista - Need to Remove Alcohol 120%

Trying to install Vista as an upgrate over WinXP Pro I was told in an error
message thet Alcohol 120% (an ISO type utility program) had to be
uninstalled, along with Nero6. OK did that, uninstalled OK accooording to
Win XP.
But the Vista installer still says I must uninstall Alcohol 120%.

I have used regedit to remove every referencr in the registry that I can
find to "Alcohol" but still the Vister installer says I have to remove
Alcohol 120% before I can do an upgrade.

I am trying out the Vista install on a cloned copy of my spare Win XP
computer on a spare hard drive, to iron out the bugs, so it doen't matter a
lot if something goes wrong.

But this Alcohol 120% thing is driving me to DRINK, seriously, I have
uninstalled it and remover every reference I can find, what can I do to get
around it please.

Any ideas welcomed thanks.

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:18:39 +1000, "Independence"
<> wrote:

>Trying to install Vista as an upgrate over WinXP Pro I was told in an error
>message thet Alcohol 120% (an ISO type utility program) had to be
>uninstalled, along with Nero6. OK did that, uninstalled OK accooording to
>Win XP.
>But the Vista installer still says I must uninstall Alcohol 120%.
>
>I have used regedit to remove every referencr in the registry that I can
>find to "Alcohol" but still the Vister installer says I have to remove
>Alcohol 120% before I can do an upgrade.
>
>I am trying out the Vista install on a cloned copy of my spare Win XP
>computer on a spare hard drive, to iron out the bugs, so it doen't matter a
>lot if something goes wrong.
>
>But this Alcohol 120% thing is driving me to DRINK, seriously, I have
>uninstalled it and remover every reference I can find, what can I do to get
>around it please.
>
>Any ideas welcomed thanks.
>

Install vista as a clean install it works much better that way. If you
have a full copy or an OEM copy then put the disk in and use the
instaler to format the partiton and then to install Vista. If you have
an upgrade disk then you have to fiddle a little. Put the disk in and
boot from it, choose to install windows and when it asks for a serial
number do not put a serial in juts click next, after a warning it will
proceed with the install and you can format and install. As soon as it
is finished run the installer a second time from within windows but
this time put the serial number in and it will run through the
install, as soon as it gets back into windows you might be advised to
delete the Windows1 ( the original install ) directory.
Bill Lord
I've taken a vow of poverty To annoy me send money

e-mail messages to bill dot lord at uku dot co dot uk
( Get rid of the spaces and use symbols for the hyphen at and dots )

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:18:39 +1000 Independence
the Farfetched Knacker Commissioning
Endowment Forum member wrote in
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<snip>
>
> Any ideas welcomed thanks.

NEVER mix alcohol and working on your computer, you'll **** something up.

HTH

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braised marsupial spinal cord, served in a steaming mug brimming with
fatty chunks of bacon and green bean with croutons of liver in ghoulish
dung, a side of foetal domestic cat kidney and a stein of ratfish
vaginal secretions.

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:35:33 -0500 Herman Klump the
Stubbly Snot**** Appeals Expansion Group member wrote in
news:...

> On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:58:15 +0100, bill lord <>
> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:18:39 +1000, "Independence"
>><> wrote:
>>
>>>Trying to install Vista as an upgrate over WinXP Pro
>
> Upgrade? That's a laugh...

Please point out where the OP wrote "upgrade", you dumb ****.

>
>>Install vista as a clean install it works much better that way.
>
> Why install that piece of **** at all?
>

Just because you and numerous other luddite cunts haven't got the technical
acuity to use something new it doesn't mean that nobody else should use it.

FROAD

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Lunch was nice; Blemished bed bug stomach in marinated chef's pubic
hairs and skunk rot vinegar con sinister dead animals, dished up in a
chilled pail containing contaminated specks of dessicated fungus,
cabbage and cashew in melted cheese, a side of fruit and a keg of
amniotic fluid.

Independence wrote:
> But this Alcohol 120% thing is driving me to DRINK, seriously, I have
> uninstalled it and remover every reference I can find, what can I do to get
> around it please.
>
> Any ideas welcomed thanks.
>
>

applications like alcohol and daemon-tools create (and leave behind, i
suppose) device drivers that allow them to emulate optical drives... dig
around in your device manager for an entry like 'a423bus' or something
similar. checking out the applications' support forums/google would
probably reward you with the proper name of the driver in question.

that's all i can think of outside of registry entries or maybe
[un]installer stuffs.

peace.