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I have tried to install about 3-4 programs but none will install. I think it has to do with creating a uninstalling item. On 2 of the programs it got to the end then failed.
Some of the things on screen after the failure are

uninstaller configuration failed

something about c:\winnt\downloaded installations\{94546b71.......} 5.0 .msi


I re-installed XP and during it it said it couldnt find A3d.dll
and something about Creative Installer

Does anyone know what is going on or how to fix it?
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:whistling: :blink: :help:
also says unable to install; access is denied

problem opening installation file
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hi, welcome to geekstogo
could you give a bit more details:
- do you mean you did a repair with XPcd when you said re-installed or was it a fresh install which sounds odd because that should erase the lot
- have you tried uninstalling from safemode
- would system restore work here I wonder
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yes i did a repair with xp cd.
i beleive the problem is that the programs cannot create an uninstallation program so it aborts the installation.
system restore did not work, becuase before this i had a lot of files deleted (30GB!) and through that i think i deleted something important.
I did mess with unistalling programs through the add/remove software thing and a few times it said other programs may use this file but i just deleted it anyway.
Also I deleted some stuff from the REGEDIT list when you click start and run REGEDIT.
so i dont know how i can figure out what it is\...

also during the XP fix it couldnt find ???.dll but i just canceled and it skiped it because i couldnt find it.
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thanks for the details, sorry that I am stumped here but someone will probably answer soon. I myself would gather drivers and reinstall the system because I fear that even if I solved the direct problem here the tampering leaves me worried that it would just appear somewhere else.
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