Hello jeswantjm,
It is probably caused by wrong access rights of Temp folder.
To reset the permissions:
1) Click on the "Start" button from an account with Admin rights
2) Choose the "Run" option.
3) Please type the "cmd" (without quotes) command to the command line and confirm by clicking on the "OK" button (or press Enter).
4) Type "cacls %SystemRoot%/temp /e /g Everyone:F" press Enter
5) Type "cacls %temp% /e /g Everyone:F" press Enter
Thank you
Last week I had Win XP reinstalled on my laptop. It came back with the AVG Trial ver which I tried to uninstall at first by running uninstall & ended up using the AVG uninstall tool. Next, when I then tried to install the free 2011 ver of AVG, I got this error:
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16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem
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.... A temporary file needed for initialization could not be created or could not be written to. Make sure that the directory path exists, and disk space is available...
From all accounts on the net, this is a problem that requires Windows reinstallation since the dir path exists & there is ample disk space. Is there any other way of tackling this problem?
Thanks
Jeswant

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