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Question

Can't use CNET installer

Aug 31, 2011 10:50AM PDT

I have tried to use the CNET installer with two different programs. Every time I get to step two (the offer for the StartNow Toolbar) nothing happens when I click on the next step button or the close button. I have to open Windows Task Manager just to close the installer. When I tell windows to end task on the application a dialog box comes up on the installer asking me if I want to exit the installer. I can click the buttons in the dialog box just fine.

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Aug 31, 2011 10:55AM PDT

I look under the BIG DOWNLOAD BUTTON and here is this tiny direct download (link and words).

Hope you can try that.

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Good catch
Sep 14, 2011 4:53AM PDT

That works.

It's adding to my updating of machines -- I usually just rack 'em up in a download manager and let them fly.

I may keep CNET's software on ONE machine -- the one I experiment with -- but I'll be schlepping a memory stick with the installation programs around for every other machine I maintain. That used to take more time, but this added annoyance makes the schlepp the lesser of two evils. CNET will see me roughly 1/12th as much as they used to as a result.

Hope they figure out a better way to attend to their bottom line.

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Thanks
Sep 14, 2011 7:02AM PDT

Yep, I caught some posts around with that suggestion, and it works.

It still makes the amount of time I spend doing update downloads about twice what it was before. I used to just "Download in Background Tab" and let all the installers rack up in my download manager. It was convenient enough that I didn't even bother transferring the installation packages form machine to machine: it was quicker to download to each machine separately.

From here on out, Techtracker is on ONE machine -- the one I tinker with -- and I will do those downloads ONCE and then schlepp them around via memory stick.


That is, those programs I can't get via other services that I am using first.

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Don't forget
Sep 14, 2011 7:14AM PDT