Unable to install eMbedded Visual C / Visual Tools

[thumper]

Hello all,

I have troubles installing Microsoft eMbedded Visual C 4 and/or Visual Tools 3.

It all comes down when the installation process is about to install the PocketPC SDK. The installation seems to hang at the point it says "Registering Platform Manager Components".

According to numerous posts in discussion groups it seems the Emulator for Windows CE has some sort of invisible 'modal' dialog displaying "Emulator for Windows CE failed to register COM services."

Does anyone knows what causes this problem? I have disabled my virus scanner, and logged in with administrator privileges.

Browsing through numerous newsgroups revealed no-one has found an appropriate solution for this problem, so I would be surprised if anyone on this forum has a clear answer, but since the level of skills of most users on this forum is quite high, I'd ask anyway :)

Kind regards,

Thumper

[itsme]

try killing more windows processes, this sometimes helps haning installs.

[thumper]

try killing more windows processes, this sometimes helps haning installs.

Ok, I will try this!

[thumper]

Hmmm, I stopped all non-critical processes using Services, but the installation still hangs...

It's driving me nuts already...

[zendrui]

Same problem.
To solve that I restarted and boot in 'safe mode' (not sure of the word in englsih. It is 'mode sans echec' in french)
I installed EVC4 -> good, restarted normally and done.

[Rudegar]

heh yeah good old safemode installs thats how i used to install Dao3.5 under xp

[thumper]

Aha, thanks for the tip! I will try a safe mode install!

Thanks alot guys!