I use AVG for my anti virus software and it's not compatible with Vista. It
took me two hours to delete all the files. I tried to uninstall with Vista,
but as soon as I select change ... it starts to reinstall. I can't get it to
uninstall. I then used AVG's own uninstall and it appears to almost complete
the uninstall, the vista intervenes and tells me there is a problem with the
install. So, to stop the popups, I decided to remove the files, but that was
its own nightmare. There are still 4 files that I cannot delete. Having
said that ... I thought I'd install another A/V program, but do you think I
can just save the file when I click it on the website .... no ... no ....
Vista assumes ... "install" (can't get it out of that mode ... hmmmfffff).
So, I cannot save any files to my hard drive, with Vista intervening and
trying to automatically install.
It's making me crazy. I'm helping a friend setup a new pc (win XP) and I
need to download some utilities for her new system, and I can't even do that.
Vista, again ... intervenes. The files won't show up on my drives. I don't
know how to beat this.
More cheese over here please!!!
"John Barnes" wrote:
> Having Roxio 8 caused the installer pop-up problems for me, but the upgrade
> was a disaster also and required a clean install. Also you may be surprised
> how many of your programs won't install when you try or won't work.
>
>
> "Cowtoon" <> wrote in message
> news:40DF7537-8751-468F-9FF1-...
> >I installed Vista SP2 (from MS CD) over XP Pro and it's become a freekin'
> > nightmare. Don't mean to sound nasty. But man-oh-man it's not been
> > pretty.
> > It took 7 hours to install and then another 24 to get my system to boot
> > without errors successfullly, and it still does boots with errors, half of
> > the time. Rebooting is no quick process with Vista. I'm almost crippled.
> > I
> > overinstalled my existing Op Sys because I have so much software ... and
> > you
> > all know it takes forever to reinstall everything.
> >
> > Another problem ... everytime I click on anything ... and I mean anything,
> > I
> > get a "windows install" window that displays. What is it doing?
> > At first I thought it was trying to access my behaviour and install
> > on demand, but it doesn't stop. I just installed three days ago. This
> > "windows install" screen has displayed probably a thousand times ... and
> > continues to display when I click something. All the updates are already
> > installed, so it can't be updates.
> >
> > Any thoughts or suggestions.
> >
> > I want my system to work and don't mind testing and working through
> > this (I know it's not perfect ... it's a beta) but this is making me a
> > little
> > crazy. I just don't know what my pc's going to do next when I boot it up.
> > It often gives me "explorer" errors and then it just stares back at me
> > with a
> > blank gray screen ... there's no option to shut down. I've had to powered
> > this machine down soooo many times ....
> >
> > So ... would you like some cheese with all this whine?
> >
> > Thanks for any insights.
>
>
>
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