"The wizard was interrupted before #@&%$£ could be installed"

[Stephen C]

Right,

Just bought Command and Conquer generals for my mate to play on my PC, went through the installation steps and at the very end got the "Wizard was interrupted before installtion could be complete" message. Only available option there was "finish" which sent me back to the desktop with nothing installed.

This has also happened to me in the past with Far Cry, exactly the same thing happened.

In event viewer there's nothing.. bar a simlpe "Msi - C&C Generals install failed".

I'm pretty sure this is XP SP2's fault and should therefore rot in hell and die but I can't even uninstall it now.. it doesn't appear in my add/remove programs also doesn't appear to have the uninstall folder in C:\Windows. It's just not havign any of it

This is starting to annoy me a great deal now having spent good money on these games and not being able to play them at all.

Specs are as follows..

P4 3.4 Prescott @ 3.6ghz
Asus P4C800 Deluxe
2GB Corsair Xms Pro LL
XFX 6800 Ultra

XP Pro with SP2
DirectX 9.0c

Not sure if you need to know anything else but if you do just say

Would be ever so appreciative for any help.

Ps.. few things I have tried are uninstalling Windows Installer 3.1, defaulting system services (though I don't think it actually did), reinstalling SP2 and a few other things that I can't quite remember.

[Grey M@a]

Same issue with Quake 2 on SP2, the way around it was to copy the contents of the cd to your HD and install from there, got round it for me. Try it and see how it goes, might not be a fix for generals though :/

[Stephen C]

Tried that before and no luck I was thinking maybe it was a system service or something I stopped as on one of my other systems with XP and SP2 it installs without a hitch.

[Stephen C]

Right, so I just been through every service and made them the same as my other PC and still no luck

[shiato storm]

any luck on this? I have generals too (well, my bro's that he doesn't want) and I tried to getit running but, like you, it runs into problems...

[Stephen C]

Nope, not worked in the slightest. I've tried everything, just finally managed to uninstall SP2 and now it's totally messed my PC. Guess I'm just going to have to format and start over.

[shiato storm]

oh no! sorry to hear that.

[Stephen C]

Aye, sucks If the damn game doesn't work after a fresh install of XP then I'm going to eat my XP discs