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Re: trouble installing sp5



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Hello Nick,

You must empty the following temp directory to get SP5
to install on Win2000Pro.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local
Settings\Temp

Good Trading,

Alan C.


--- Nick West <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having trouble installing sp5 on my Win2K
> machine.  I have a copy of sp3
> with a permanent password, and sp4 installed just
> fine.  When I try to start
> the sp5 installer, though, I repeatedly get this
> message: "The decompression
> of %S failed.  There may not be enough free disk
> space available in the TEMP
> directory."
> 
> I've been able to install sp5 on a Win98SE machine
> -- even though I got this
> same message once, it eventually started and
> installed just fine.  For the
> Win2K machine, I've downloaded the file several
> times to insure it isn't
> corrupted...I've deleted all files in any TEMP
> directory I could find...I've
> done a clean reinstall of Win2K...and I've tried
> installing it over a
> network from my Win98SE machine...all to no avail. 
> I've also tried to
> create a Transport package in Norton Cleansweep to
> move over to the Win2K
> machine, but this tactic runs afoul of Omega's
> security measures.
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?  Any tips or
> clues?
> 
> thanks in advance and happy trading!
> 
> Nick
>