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Installing Creative Entertainment Center fails on Windows 7
Hello,
I am pretty sure my Windows 7 was a clean as possible given the circumstances though... not entirely clean lots of software on it, but creative-wise should be gone/good to go. Every time I try to install installation cd from nero image it fails at 24% when it tries to install; Creative Entertainment Center. Apperently the installer is not compatible with latest install shield and windows 7. Depending on some ****ing third party install shield software is pretty retarded anyway... cause of incompatibilities between versions. CPU usage is at 50% but that is svchost after a boot the installer software itself appears to be braindead at 0% cpu each. demo32.exe ctlaunch.exe VERY FOKKING ANNOYING. Furthermore if I cancel installation now it will corrupt the de-installer. Clicking repair all will fix it eventually allowing everything to be de-installed again. I think I have now 100% convincingly determined the original install software no longer works properly. A possible solution is to de-check entertainment center when trying to install the software. But first everything has to be repaired, then de-installed. I think I wrote about this in the past though. Also something remarkable has happened. Since I de-installed these audio drivers the windows boot time is no longer 10 minutes but much shorter. perhaps the SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_18_0015.exe version I was using is actually a beta version and causes 10 minute boot time. Or perhaps I was using SBXF_PCDRV_L11_2_30_0004.exe Probably the latter... maybe re-installing these drivers improperly without restarting might have caused the 10 minute boot issue. If the boot issue returns I will report back. I also re-configured deamon tools in msconfig to not start up. Something interesting just happened. A POP-OP occured saying that device install failed... perhaps windows was trying to install a driver and perhaps this is upsetting the x-fi elite pro installation software. Perhaps windows delays the install shield software and stops it... Kinda weird. It's not progressing though. Perhaps this automation is a bad thing... kinda dislike automation... it can interfere with other things... though sometimes it's nice... currently it's hard to tell if it caused a problem with this install software. For now I will assume not... because the same thing happened when the audio driver was already installed via web release driver. So I stay with my earlier conclusion that creative entertainment center installer is BROKEN with latest installshield and windows 7. FOKKING ANNOYING. Bye, Skybuck. |
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