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Windows Installer App not Working

Posted on 12/20/2014 7:19:10 AM PST by savedbygrace

I have a Lenova C440 All-in-One Windows 8.1 PC.

Recently I tried to install an application from the DVD installer disc. It failed. The first part of the process, choosing the location and the type of install, worked fine, but when the disc was supposed to spin up and copy/install all the files, it just sat there with no activity.

After several minutes, I canceled out of it. I tried an install disc for a different app, and it failed similarly.

I have done an Internet search for the issue, and have tried a few of the suggestions, including a couple or three things from the Microsoft Support website. No change.

Suggestions, please?


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
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To: savedbygrace

CLASSIC SHELL was the first thing I did with Win8.


41 posted on 12/20/2014 10:46:29 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: logi_cal869

LOL.

In that case, I am sure it will quickly become Sum Ting Wong.


42 posted on 12/20/2014 11:03:34 AM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: savedbygrace
wait...

people still use DVDs to install programs?

43 posted on 12/20/2014 11:06:03 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: savedbygrace

I believe one of your other replies already addressed your puter’s makers...


44 posted on 12/20/2014 11:14:11 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: savedbygrace

That WAS just a joke. I hope you can resolve it without much headache.


45 posted on 12/20/2014 11:16:15 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: savedbygrace
Here is a video instructions if you haven't tried compatibility mode yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8IVuMpJLH0

If it doesn't list your program when you get to that point then choose, not listed, then click browse and point it to the program in your CD/DVD drive and see if it picks it up from there. I've run in to this issue installing older programs on Windows 8 sometimes and most of the time it is a compatibility issue and can be fixed in this manner.

CGato

46 posted on 12/20/2014 11:36:28 AM PST by Conservative Gato
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To: old curmudgeon
A google or a visit to one of the many computer message boards would be a better source. And more welcome.

Darn straight. This is Free Republic where we are happy to help if you have peanut butter in your hair or a snake in your bedroom, but tech support, not so much.

47 posted on 12/20/2014 11:42:02 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Conservative Gato

Thank you.


48 posted on 12/20/2014 1:54:01 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: ElkGroveDan

LOL


49 posted on 12/20/2014 1:54:26 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Thank you for the link to classic shell. It works great.

I like the start menu ad what I can do to my folders.


50 posted on 12/20/2014 6:19:45 PM PST by Clyde5445
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