By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:25:05 +0000

It occurs to me that I didn’t describe how to see what installation is in progress. This is not 100%, but it’s worth a shot and anyone can do it.
1) Get the name of the file from HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\InProgress – it’ll almost certainly be something in C:\Windows\Installs, you can just copy the entire string by double-clicking on the entry, then selecting the entire string and copying it.
2) Go to the Start menu, pick Run, type “notepad.exe” and hit Enter
3) In Notepad, go to File, Open, and paste in the file name (with the path) then open the file
4) Look through the unreadable parts looking for references to what program the installer is part of. You may need to turn on word wrap from the Format menu. When you find it you may be looking at what appears to be words with spaces between each letter (e.g. “M i c r o s o f t O f f i c e P r o f e s s i o n a l D i s k 2″) – this is related to how the computer stores information, you don’t need to worry about it.

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By: Alan