Apollo702 Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 (edited) Hi, I like PDN and I have used it for a long time now. However, I ran into a twist on some other issues. I am migrating my program files to a program drive and apparently something went wrong here. I did what appeared to be a complete uninstallation and I thought that I got all of the files. I then went to do fresh reinstalls and now I get fatal errors when installing from a fresh download file. Maybe there are still some stray files, maybe something else. At this point it is time to ask someone who would know these things. Thank you in advance! Edited August 9, 2015 by Ego Eram Reputo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Hi Apollo702! See my reply here http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/32121-installation-problem-please-help/?p=429479 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo702 Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 (edited) Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately that program also is generating an instant error and can't start. Here is a screenshot: Edit: I was able to open it as adminstrator, the install appeared to happen and then there is no trace of the program anywhere. This is on Windows 8.1 HP 64. Edited August 10, 2015 by Apollo702 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Are you sure you're downloading and installing the right package? paint.net.4.0.6.install.zip? There's no such thing as "StartMsi.vbs" in the Paint.NET install process. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo702 Posted August 11, 2015 Author Share Posted August 11, 2015 The files should be legitimate. The majority of the times when I have updated PDN the updates came from Filehippo. Also, in case something was wrong with the 4.06 I also gave 4.05 a try and got the same errors( I believe in keeping an old version or two around of setup files in my download folder in case of bad updates and similar situations.) Also, I went in and used the program Search Everything and wiped out every last trace of the previous installs of PDN(or so it seems) to see if there was anything left jamming up the works- and that also proved unsuccessful. However, there may be more evidence. I am getting SD Display errors when attempting to install some software from Stardock such as Windowblinds and WinFX. I don't know if these events are related though and I am racking my brains to think of anything that could be a culprit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 I don't understand why you are using filehippo. Get it from the official website if you insist on downloading it. Paint.net updates from within the program, so you don't need to download anything separately or uninstall the existing version. Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo702 Posted August 11, 2015 Author Share Posted August 11, 2015 I like keeping setup files- but you are right. I should have bookmarked the official download site. Anyways, I did a fresh download and the results were the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 When the error dialog is open, use Notepad to open the file that it's referencing (StartMsi.vbs). Copy and paste the contents here into a [ code ] block. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 The StartMsi.vbs error looks to be generated by the clean up utility because scripting is disabled. See http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-software/741386-installer-cleanup-utility-msicuu2-exe.html Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo702 Posted August 12, 2015 Author Share Posted August 12, 2015 OK. I don't know what to click on or how to grab that information. When retrying it I am stuck at this stage: The install goes partially through and then hits this roadblock. Here is a screenshot: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 1603 is a known error. Try the solution here http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/692-install-update-or-uninstall-trouble-read-this/?p=326988 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo702 Posted August 12, 2015 Author Share Posted August 12, 2015 So what was the solution? I saw broken links, a whole lot of registry editing... I tried the .net repair tool... What did I miss? Please spell it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 1. Clean out the existing installation with the Windows Installer CleanUp utility (http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/692-install-update-or-uninstall-trouble-read-this/?p=2795) 1603 usually means a system file became corrupt. So... 2. run System File Checker with the /SCANNOW option (http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/18931-fatal-installation-error-1603-fix/?p=323514) 3. Try a fresh download (from the paint.net website) and reinstall. If you have no joy reinstalling, redo 1 and then try this http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/30437-win7-error-1603-32-bit-msi-may-not-be-installed-on-64-bit-os/#entry429646 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo702 Posted August 15, 2015 Author Share Posted August 15, 2015 OK, I just did a system restore and it did restore PDN- but I never got to find out if any of the solutions worked. It kinda still sticks in my craw trying to figure out just what was going on. The other one is I have run many system file checks- and at least according to them all the system files are intact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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