VS 2005 install messes with other apps
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I recently reinstalled VS 2005 and after that, a dialog would come up when I started MS Word. It said "the feature you are using is on the VS 2005 CD and must be installed" (or something to that effect). Naturally, MS can't tell you what bleeping feature I'm supposedly using (all I had done was to start up Word). Then it takes 10 minutes or more to install this "feauture" after I supply the disk and still never tells me WTF it did. This happened the other day on another MS product - I think it was Expression Web - and it was the same story: no indication of what "feature" I was using and a long install (about 20 minutes). What the &$^# is going on when VS 2005 has to screw up other working programs and force you to do a further install? Those programs were on my machine at the time. Couldn't it install what it needed for those programs? In both cases I was not really doing anything or using any "feature" - I was just opening the app. Is it not possible MS to get what it needs installed the first time and not make you go back to do more installation later? Is it not possible for them to tell you what "feature" you're supposedly using and what the blank they just installed? This is something of a rant and complaint, but I would like to know the answers to these questions if you happen to be familiar with why this happens. Thanks. Russell
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I recently reinstalled VS 2005 and after that, a dialog would come up when I started MS Word. It said "the feature you are using is on the VS 2005 CD and must be installed" (or something to that effect). Naturally, MS can't tell you what bleeping feature I'm supposedly using (all I had done was to start up Word). Then it takes 10 minutes or more to install this "feauture" after I supply the disk and still never tells me WTF it did. This happened the other day on another MS product - I think it was Expression Web - and it was the same story: no indication of what "feature" I was using and a long install (about 20 minutes). What the &$^# is going on when VS 2005 has to screw up other working programs and force you to do a further install? Those programs were on my machine at the time. Couldn't it install what it needed for those programs? In both cases I was not really doing anything or using any "feature" - I was just opening the app. Is it not possible MS to get what it needs installed the first time and not make you go back to do more installation later? Is it not possible for them to tell you what "feature" you're supposedly using and what the blank they just installed? This is something of a rant and complaint, but I would like to know the answers to these questions if you happen to be familiar with why this happens. Thanks. Russell
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The auto-"repair"[^] function of Windows Installer? Drives one nuts, from time to time.. :^)
I are troll :)
Maybe. "I are troll" ??? Wouldn't want to associate myself with trolls . . . perhaps I am not understanding this correctly.
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Maybe. "I are troll" ??? Wouldn't want to associate myself with trolls . . . perhaps I am not understanding this correctly.
Alas, there are no trolls on the alliance-side. I was a Draenei actually, but a blue cow would make even less sense in a sig. Unless you play World of Warcraft! Two months clean now :suss: Still, I think that I'm close to being a troll. Too young to be an Undead, to small and sober to be a Tauren, but reelly bigmouthed, bigfooted and used to making every mistake in the book - and going back if I feel like I missed a blunder. See, if one of the methods of learning is called "trial and error", and you learn from your mistakes - then by that same reasoning you have missed a learning-opportunity if you haven't messed up everything at least once :) Yah, I 're troll :cool:
I are troll :)
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Alas, there are no trolls on the alliance-side. I was a Draenei actually, but a blue cow would make even less sense in a sig. Unless you play World of Warcraft! Two months clean now :suss: Still, I think that I'm close to being a troll. Too young to be an Undead, to small and sober to be a Tauren, but reelly bigmouthed, bigfooted and used to making every mistake in the book - and going back if I feel like I missed a blunder. See, if one of the methods of learning is called "trial and error", and you learn from your mistakes - then by that same reasoning you have missed a learning-opportunity if you haven't messed up everything at least once :) Yah, I 're troll :cool:
I are troll :)
Oh, no wonder I didn't understand. I'm not a gamer at all.