You’re talking WinhAte I assume. Thus my first disclaimer is that I have absolutely no hands on experience with that abomination. Also, not seeing exactly what is happening makes it difficult. As an aside, ‘custom’ install usually just gets you a box that lists options of what parts of the program to install (for instance, a custom install of MS Office will allow you to install just Excel without Word, Powerpoint, Outloaf, or any other orts if that’s all you want) and probably won’t allow you to bypass whatever is stopping it from installing.
My first thoughts are that it sounds like something that needs to be run as administrator (if it were Win7 that would be my primary opinion.) In Win7 right-clicking on the file name will bring up a clickbox that has as one of its options ‘Run as Administrator’. How you get that with WinhAte or even if it is an available option I don’t know.
Are you trying to install from a CD/DVD or from a download file? If from a download file, do you have the file already downloaded and on your drive, or does it require an active connection to download its bits ‘n pieces while installing?
What are the indications/gripeboxes that are telling you that Win security is blocking the install? Or the download? or whatever it is? (I personally am very leery of disabling firewalls and security, there’s usually a way to get around them if they are interfering.)
Who on the UT do we know that has some hands on with WinhAte that can chime in here????
I have some limited experience with WinhAte. RunAsAdministrator is certainly there. A quick GoogAll will tell me how if that’s all that’s needed. But knowing exactly what it do when it don’t do what she want it to do will help ginormously (as you indiciferated).
You actually answered my question about “Custom,” as it was as I suspected, which is why I ask.
It is a CD/ROM and it installed just fine on this machine before it went into the shop for “repairs.” When it came back I have had nothing but problems and I’m about ready to take it back and ask for an HP. At least I know how to navigate somewhat. Toshiba has so many firewalls it isn’t funny.
And I AM the administrator. I decided to click that box at the get-go. Still, if I don’t understand what a certain phrase means, I don’t dare delete or change it.
There is nothing to indicate what is stopping the installation. It goes almost to the end and when it should give me the option to “restart now” or later, it freezes up and will not finish the download.
You rang?