The Problem: Recently due to unforeseen technical difficulties in my C:// which were completely not my fault, I was lead little choice but to use system restore. I've done this before, and PDN came back up with little effort; however this time:
I tried DLing .NET framework several times. 3 different versions, 2 times each. Alas, I feel I wasted time, same error with each. These were the links I DL'd in order, which I remember because the links are purple on google:
.NET 3.5
.NET 4.0 (newest)
.NET 2.0 (did I? can't remember, but link's purple).
.NET 3.0 (on faqs)
Most of them claimed to had install, with the above error; 3.0 however claimed to have failed with this:
Again, I tried each twice with several restarts in between, and I get the same "X" error message above when opening PDN 3.5.8 (I also tried reinstalling and uninstalling PDN 3.5.8 several times, no success). It may be worth mentioning that the day after system restore, Windows auto-updates itself (turned on)... but in the middle of it, I had to shut down the computer early. Also, unlike my first system restore, this one occured because I was, erm, tampering unwittingly in the C://, although any problems there should have been cured with system restore, right? Thanks so much if you talented people can get to the bottom of this.