Did you try a system restore to a point before the program started messing up?
I am trying to install a program that has already been installed before... It is for a friend of mine... The computer is as follows...
Windows XP home
512 MB ram
200 gig harddrive
The program was installed before and was working properly... one day it decided not to work well and they tried to delete it and re-install it... *doesn't work that way...
What I've done... I have done all of the following... add/remove the program, then go to the directory and delete the folder, remove spyware, do a virus search, and also defrag the harddrive and use a window washer program... and still get the same error as follows:
C:\Docum~\owner\LOCALS~1\GLF41.tmp could not be opened. Please check that your disk is not full and that you have access to the destination directory. The process cannot access the file becuase it is being used by another process...
It is a program called "Contractors' Forms" and it does what seems to be an install... afterwards you can go to start\programs and click on the exe file to run it and then it errors out...
I have: made sure I am the administrator... the files destination is accessible... and there is plenty of room on the hardrive...
Also the disk is new and there is no scratches, plus it easily installed on another computer...
This is a bought program.. not a copy.. not a download... and oddly enough all of the files are recognized by windows except for if you right click on windows you will get about 20 some odd files on the new> for document types, that have that "unassigned" icon out to the left as if they aren't recognized...
AAAARRRRGGGHHHH... help fella's... I have tried it all... could it be that the registry needs to be cleaned... and how can I do that easily and without messing anything else up...

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