Vista is frustrating, as always. In fact, after running the uninstaller once, I found that the control panel stopped working. It would flash up and disappear. If I ran in safe mode, it works, but gives an obscure message about permissions when I try to uninstall something. For the record, I installed .NET 3.5, Acrobat, and my program, so one of those screwed it up. I was able to keep working by running Programs and Features ( because they HAD to rename it in Vista, or it may have been easy to find the first time I used it ), from My Computer.
So, my installer is running, and taking *forever*. I know the stupid .NET 3.5 install claims to be downloading, even tho I have the full version on the DVD. I suddenly realise, it's trying to connect to download, even though it doesn't need to, and timing out five times before noticing it has the data locally. Then it moves up a bit, and repeats the sequence. It's bad enough that our clients are shown a screen saying that .NET 3.5 is downloading, when it's not, but this is just the height of stupidity in my opinion. I was at a family dinner, testing, so I didn't have the option of connecting to the web, which slowed down my work considerably. Another example of Microsoft's inability to see past their own assumptions, and consider what the possible situation of real users may just well be.
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