seemed to be having trouble with Live365.com for the last couple of
days, as suddenly I couldn't get any stations, and I kept getting an
error saying the server could not be contacted and I may be having
network problems. As a last resort, I restored an old checkpoint.
This didn't solve the problem, but the icons for my Netscape browser,
Openoffice 2.1, and Acrobat Reader disappeared and changed to those
little white icons. At that point, the program that was supposed to
open the relevant file wouldn't open it anymore. When I tried to
change the icons back and change the program that opens the file,
Windows wouldn't let me do it. Then, when I tried to uninstall the
program, I couldn't do it. I couldn't rename the files, move them, or
delete them.
So I deleted them manually and tried to reinstall the original
programs over them, intending to then uninstall the programs again
and then reinstall them a third and final time. Then I began getting
error 1714 on all the programs, telling me that the program was on an
unavailable network resource, or that the old version could not be
uninstalled. After deleting all the registry files I could find for
Acrobat and Netscape, I was finally able to reinstall those. But not
for OpenOffice 2.1or 2.0 I've cleaned the registry again and again
with VCOM Fix It Utilities 6, SuperRabbit, and the Microsoft Registry
Cleaner. No results. Then, I went into the registry and deleted each
and every file under OpneOffice, sooffice, or anything having to do
with OpenOffice 2. A search of the registry now produces nothing.
There is nothing left of OpenOffice 2 in my computer, and yet version
2.1 STILL WILL NOT INSTALL and it keeps telling me the older version
(2.1, which no longer exists, at least when I search the registry)
cannot be removed.
What did the checkpoint restoration do to my computer? Why, if there
is nothing left in the registry, will 2.1 not install. I cleaned out
Netscape version 8 and Acrobat reader the same way, deleting one
entry after another, and then used another one of my programs to
clean out all the bad links. That worked for everything except OpenOffice.
Nothing in the registry, and yet the install program thinks there is.
What the Hell is up?
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