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A while back, I installed a flight sim on my machine under Win98 (Dual
boot w/WinXP). I later went back to the install program so that I
could add some more features. Halfway through the new feature install
process, I noticed that I had accidentally chose an incorrect option.
I canceled the install process, and then tried to start it again. I
get this message that says the program is allready in the process of
being installed. I thought that if I uninstalled the program, then
reinstalled it, that would help. BUt when I try to do that, I get the
same message. I'm affraid to just delete it, because I doubt that I
will be able to get it back on my hard drive again short of
re-installing win98, which I cannot do because of the way my
partitions are set up. Anyway, I suspect that during the install
process, the program makes an entry in the registry telling itself
that the installation is in proccess so that it won't install while
installing or something(!?). I tried searching the registry with
REGEDIT, but I could not find the culpret entry. Does anybody who
knows how these install programs work have any idea how to fix this? I
don't believe that it was anything like InstallSheild or WiseInstall
or anything like that. I think it was an Electronic Arts propriatary
installer. THe program in question is "Jane's USAF". If anyone knows
of an easy fix, or better yet, a way to make this program work with
WinXP Professional Corporate edition, please let me know. Thanks.

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Thanks again.

Tony wrote:

> A while back, I installed a flight sim on my machine under Win98 (Dual
> boot w/WinXP). I later went back to the install program so that I
> could add some more features. Halfway through the new feature install
> process, I noticed that I had accidentally chose an incorrect option.
> I canceled the install process, and then tried to start it again. I
> get this message that says the program is allready in the process of
> being installed. I thought that if I uninstalled the program, then
> reinstalled it, that would help. BUt when I try to do that, I get the
> same message. I'm affraid to just delete it, because I doubt that I
> will be able to get it back on my hard drive again short of
> re-installing win98, which I cannot do because of the way my
> partitions are set up. Anyway, I suspect that during the install
> process, the program makes an entry in the registry telling itself
> that the installation is in proccess so that it won't install while
> installing or something(!?). I tried searching the registry with
> REGEDIT, but I could not find the culpret entry. Does anybody who
> knows how these install programs work have any idea how to fix this? I
> don't believe that it was anything like InstallSheild or WiseInstall
> or anything like that. I think it was an Electronic Arts propriatary
> installer. THe program in question is "Jane's USAF". If anyone knows
> of an easy fix, or better yet, a way to make this program work with
> WinXP Professional Corporate edition, please let me know. Thanks.
>
> To reply by email, use "", not ""
>
> Thanks again.

You probably need to contact the game's manufacturer, i.e. Electronic
Arts if that's who did it. There's no such thing as a 'generic'
installation procedure that you can count on all installers to use-each
one would be different. The closest to that would be a common 3rd-party
installer such as InstallShield and you've already said that it doesn't
use that.