svenniemannie Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 I have problems with (un)installing Paint.NET (Well, state the obvious ) It started some time ago, when I installed paint.NET on a memory-stick as well. (To use it at school) I don't remember why, but after that I deleted the paint.NET on my harddisk and tried to reïnstall it. I was surprised to find the 'standard-installation-path' to be my memory-stick. I changed it to c:\paint.NET\ and continued. I got an error which had to do something with a network error. Odd, as it was just my harddisk, no network needed. Anyway, I 'fixed' it by copying my memory-stick version to my harddisk again. Today I wanted to update, but during the update the following error showed up: 'resources' is not a valid short file name Some more tries, but nothing worked, so I decided to uninstall everything and download a new clean version. Problems with uninstalling: I could delete all files, but the folder "c:\paint.NET" couldn't be deleted. It seemed to be read-only. Turning off the 'read-only' didn't work, it just became read-only again. Standard-Windows-uninstall didn't work, neither did an extensive deletion by "TuneUp Utilities 2007". Problems with installing: I tried to install the new paint.NET in another folder, C:\paintDOTNET, as the other one was still occupied by the empty folder. However, I just got the same error: 'resources' is not a valid short file name I hope you can help me solve this problem, I'm really missing Paint.NET already Thanks, Sven (Vista, Dell Inspiron 1521) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HITMAN-X- Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 I think you will find your answer here viewtopic.php?f=10&t=854 Quote DEXTUT.COM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenniemannie Posted July 8, 2008 Author Share Posted July 8, 2008 I actually looked up that post before posting, but I jumped over nr. 4 too fast. Is there any possibility I had paint.NET running *without* the .NET framework installed? I can't find it in the program-list (Or is it embedded in Vista?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HITMAN-X- Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 No you must have .NET Framework installed to install, run, and uninstall Paint.NET. However I don't think thats the problem. See you deleted Paint.NET so it should still show up in add/remove programs but give you an error when trying to remove it. Number 3 in that topic should of told you how to fix this by giving you a link to another topic that has information on uninstalling Paint.NET using a Windows Installer CleanUp Utility program. Quote DEXTUT.COM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenniemannie Posted July 8, 2008 Author Share Posted July 8, 2008 See you deleted Paint.NET so it should still show up in add/remove programs but give you an error when trying to remove it. I was talking about the .NET framework not showing up Paint.NET shows up, but won't uninstall (due to the 'resources' error) Number 3 in that topic should of told you how to fix this by giving you a link to another topic that has information on uninstalling Paint.NET using a Windows Installer CleanUp Utility program. Hm, I'll try nr. 3 tomorrow. I'm afraid it won't work though, as this "TuneUp Utilities" is also a very capable program and didn't succeed. But, who doesn't try, doesn't win. (Dutch saying, don't know if it can be translated to english ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiguelPereira Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 re-download Paint.NET and try to install it. Quote [The stock on my sig is a photo I took not a render from Splatter] [My deviantART][My Gallery][My Space] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenniemannie Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 Well... The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility failed before it started. I downloaded the file and got the following error: By Svenniemannie Funny thing was, I got angry and tried to delete the (empty) folder by hand again. That worked :? I re-downloaded paint.NET and tried to install it again, but I got the same error: By svenniemannie at 2008-07-09 So my problem occurs when removing the older versions. As far as I know, I deleted everything though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HITMAN-X- Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 I will ask some questions that may sound dumb but I have to ask them as I don't use Vista (For good reasons). One: are you an Admin ?, If not then log on as one and try again. Two: have you turn of VB Runtime, or uninstalled it ? Three: Have you done a virus scan of your computer to ensure that VB runtime and script has not be damaged. I am guessing your not logged in as a user like the admin who has permissions for installing and uninstall some apps. Matter a fact the error code you got when you tryed to install Windows Installer CleanUp Utility is "Permission denied". Quote DEXTUT.COM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenniemannie Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 I will ask some questions that may sound dumb but I have to ask them as I don't use Vista (For good reasons).One: are you an Admin ?, If not then log on as one and try again. Two: have you turn of VB Runtime, or uninstalled it ? Three: Have you done a virus scan of your computer to ensure that VB runtime and script has not be damaged. I am guessing your not logged in as a user like the admin who has permissions for installing and uninstall some apps. Matter a fact the error code you got when you tryed to install Windows Installer CleanUp Utility is "Permission denied". No dumb questions 1: Yes, I'm admin 2: What's VB Runtime? :oops: 3: I did a virusscan, defragmentation etc etc, I expect my computer to be pretty clean. About the permission denied: I'll try to run it 'as admin', which is one of the options I forgot. (Although I still don't understand that option, as don't expect to need this function when I'm "Admin" already...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HITMAN-X- Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 About the permission denied: I'll try to run it 'as admin', which is one of the options I forgot. (Although I still don't understand that option, as don't expect to need this function when I'm "Admin" already...) Welcome to Vista ! Were being admin does not mean anything unless you tell the computer that you want to have rights. Quote DEXTUT.COM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svenniemannie Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 Nevermind my questions about the VB-thingy, the windows utility did it's thing (never though I was gonna say this, but: Thanks microsoft). It's working again Oh, and in my 'defence', I took vista because it came with my notebook, and downgrading to xp didn't give me any price reduction, and I was kinda hoping Vista had sóme nice things. I'm surviving though Thanks for the help! Wouldn't have figured it out myself, mainly cause I though 2.6 was too long ago to be important to me ;P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HITMAN-X- Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Not a problem, happy you got it working again. Quote DEXTUT.COM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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