Installation woes in CosmosWorks
Installation woes in CosmosWorks
(OP)
I am encountering a strange installation error with CosmosWorks 2004, which I downloaded from the SolidWorks website. I double-click on the "cwsetup.exe" file, and about two or three seconds later, a dialog box comes up saying "The wizard was interrupted." Of course, nothing ever gets installed, since it all happens so quickly. I have tried installing the program on a different computer, and it works fine. Ordinarily, I would just use the computer that works, but we have several CosmosWorks options that will need to be installed on people's local machines, and I want to have a handle on this error so it doesn't turn into a show-stopper. Has anyone come across this before?
FYI, I have tried the following: Removing and reinstalling Windows Installer, installing MDAC, modifying DCOM security permissions, installing the program from CD instead of a local hard drive, and using "msiexec" instead of clicking on the icon directly. None of those actions has fixed the problem.
Thanks for the help.
FYI, I have tried the following: Removing and reinstalling Windows Installer, installing MDAC, modifying DCOM security permissions, installing the program from CD instead of a local hard drive, and using "msiexec" instead of clicking on the icon directly. None of those actions has fixed the problem.
Thanks for the help.






RE: Installation woes in CosmosWorks
Disable your anti-virus software.
Insure you have enough drive space to install it (minimum of twice as much as the program will eventually use is a pretty good rule of thumb.)
Then attempt to install it.
That the issue is machine specific (meaning the install works fine on another computer) isolates it to something unique to that machine. If it was still giving you problems on that specific machine after a complete reinstall of the OS and applications from the ground up, I would be pretty bewildered.
RE: Installation woes in CosmosWorks
Oh, well. Live and learn... I hope this helps someone who gets into a similar predicament. Score another one for Microsoft's cryptic error messages.