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by brianaaa12 1 view

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Greetings,

I have a Win2K box with no service packs. Attempted to install SP4 and during extraction I get the message "the system cannot find the file specified". In another case, I was attempting to reload IE6 SP1 and after a while during installation I get a similar message about not being able to find a file (the file was supposed to be in Documents and Settings\user\local settings\temp. But when I browse there, the path and file are present.

Another strange symptom, after launching IE, as soon as I click anywhere in IE, whether the scroll bar or within the window, IE just exits. No message, no error. It just closes.

What I have done is complete antivirus with several programs, Adaware, Hijack This, Spyware Doctor, Spybot. Memory diagnostics, HD diagnostics. Even did an OS repair. I own my own shop and have seen some strange s*it over the years but this one has me stumped. I have a suspicion there is a security issue, but can't pinpoint it. The user I am logged in as is an administrator. Any ideas?

Brian

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by zlitocook

Could be alot of things but it sounds like you have spent too much time on it already. I would back up and blow away the drive and reinstall.
I have a limit on the time I will work on a computer now and if it passes that time I tell the person. And say it will cost more to fix then the computers worth and almost all of them say reinstall.

by p.j.hutchison

First empty your existing Temp folder incl the C:\Windows\Temp folder. Do NOT store SP4 in Temp.

Copy SP4 onto the hard disk and then run it to install, it usually creates a folder anyway to store the extracted files.

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