[Installer Hangs]

Thanks. But I dont know what happened, but I ran another installer that uses the same software as Paint.NET, and it said something about deinstalling Paint.NET. So I saw that and tried installating PDN again and it worked. I think my computer is possessed by demons.

Thanks again.

[Installer Hangs]

System specs:

Computer: FOXCONN MCP61M05

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (Brisbane, BH-G2)

2200 MHz (11.00x200.0) @ 2210 MHz (11.00x200.9)

Motherboard: FOXCONN M61PMV

Chipset: nVidia nForce 6100-405/430

Memory: 4096 MBytes @ 315 MHz, 5.0-5-5-15

- 2048 MB PC5300 DDR2-SDRAM - Kingston 2G-UDIMM

- 2048 MB PC5300 DDR2-SDRAM - Kingston 2G-UDIMM

Graphics: XFX GeForce 8400 GS

nVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS (G86), 512 MB DDR2 SDRAM

Drive: WDC WD5000AAKS-22A7B0, 488.4 GB, Serial ATA 3Gb/s

Drive: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH20NS15, DVD+R DL

Sound: nVIDIA MCP61 - High Definition Audio Controller

Network: NVIDIA nForce 10/100 Mbps Ethernet

OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Build 6002

OK, so a bit of background in case it helps: A few weeks ago, my computer got unplugged (I'm too poor to get a UPS ), and the hard drive developed a few bad sectors. One of those bad sectors ended up being right on a system file ... and you can guess what happened. I had to reinstall. Luckily, I did not lose any files (they were on a data partition).

So the latest chkdsk/hard drive manufacturer diagnostic tool thingy came out just fine, but every time I try to install Paint.NET it would hang on me. First I would click through the options (e.g. desktop icon) and then it would hang during the actual installation and then turn grey, and then after a few minutes explorer.exe would start hanging and everything would get frozen up and I would have to hit the reset button. I downloaded the latest version in case it was due to a bad sector; no luck.

Also, the second time I tried to install, it did this de-installation thing of the previous failed installation. But then it would hang again.

Thanks for any help.

[Suddenly complaining about .NET Framework.]

Duh! I never really noticed the SP1. Thanks!

[Suddenly complaining about .NET Framework.]

May not be coherent here so I apologize ahead of time...

All right, I been using Paint.NET just fine for a long time. Then all of a sudden it complains that it needs the .NET Framework 3.5 to run.

Now, here's the extra weird part -- I reinstalled the framework. And it still complains. Vista Home Premium, 32-bit, no service packs. Tried running as administrator (as often it clears up those odd little software problems) but doesn't work. I tried a search and didn't find anything relevant (although it's more likely to be my lousy Google skills than lack of anything)

Thanks for any help and it's a good program.

P.S. For some reason this page says net framework 2.0.