XP Does Not Seem To Allow New Program Installations

From: Lou (Nitewolf047_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/01/03 

Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 11:44:31 -0700

Did you try the rollback feature in recovery program? Or
try this. At the welcome screen press ctrl-alt-delete
twice. this will enable to logon as administrator with
your sign in name and password. Hopefully you made
recovery cd's before you did anything with the pc. Any
corrupted files can be recovered with the cd's.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have had my new PC for a couple of weeks.
>I was able to originally install programs just fine. I
>uninstalled turbotax two days ago and could not
reinstall
>it. When I tried to install another program I found that
>all of a sudden when trying to install new software off
CD-
>ROM, the CD starts up, I get the install window asking
me
>whether I want to install, I click on yes, it goes to an
>pointer+hour glass for a few seconds and then terminates
>with nothing else happening, leaving me back on the
>desktop.
>I have the only administrator account, and it does the
>same with more than one program CD (i.e. it is a
>repeatable error by the ssytem, not the program CDs).
>Any idea what might be happening here?
>
>.
>

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