"ATCSMike" <no@way.com> wrote in message 
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Hi,

I had to reinstall WinXP w/SP2 and now SETI won't install. It does 
absolutely nothing when I click on the exe file. It goes through the 
decompression sequence and then closes and that's it.

I've tried and tried and tried, but nothing works. SETI does work with 
WinXP SP2, btw. I updated Win XP through MS web site and the program 
worked fine. It's just I can't install it from a clean installation of Win 
XP SP2.

Any ideas? I've tried unzipping the exe and try it that way, but it didn't 
work either.

I read the bottom of the download page, but that didn't help. I emptied 
every Temp dir on the computer, also.

I did noticed one thing. I put the exe file in the Temp dir and then ran 
it. It created a temp file, WZSB.tmp, and after 30 seconds promptly 
deleted it before installation. I was able to access the temp file and it 
shows all of the setup files.

I just realized the following: the program is by passing the installation 
process altogether. It goes straight to the deletion of the temp dir it 
creates.

I'm stumped now. Why would it delete the temp dir before installing the 
program?

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Mike,

I can't say I've heard of anyone experiencing this problem before.  The 
solution that comes to mind, which may not be the correct one, based on the 
information you provided would be to uninstall SP2, reinstall Seti Classic 
then once its working, reinstall SP2.

Just an idea.

SC