Can't install or uninstall A120 in XP Pro

[George_K]

I'm logged on XP as administrator and get the following message trying to uninstall or re-install Alcohol 120;


Error 1606. Could not access network location “::\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop”.

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Found out why... Since I upgraded from 98se to XP Pro (and installed SP2), all the nasties from 98 were enherited. Even if you're able to uninstall A120 by registry editing, you cannot re-install. You will have to reformat to ntfs (wise) and do fresh install of XP. Then all your software (well, nearly) will install ok.

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Another day. A120% has a feature called safe mode. If the vertual drivers fail to load, you can still use the program minus mounting images. But the question of installing; you down't actually have to install it (that blasted setup.msi). just create a new directory, then use WinRAR to open setup.msi and drag all the files to your newly created directory and use the program for everything except image mounting.

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And now the final solution (for me). Ther was a registery key sequence that was eluding me. When I searched for it, the first one found I deleted, but didn't realize that key sequence occurs several times. Kept searching for same value and deleting it till no more for that value were left. Now A120 installs perfectly.