I've had this a lot recently on windows XP with newer spplications, things like uTorrent, VLC, MPC, even some browsers etc, it's usually because I have done a re-install of the OS and forgotten to do the service pack 3 upgrade.

Interesting, well I'm on Windows 10 here so I mean I expect things to go wrong with old games, but I do seem to see this more often lately.

My friend had a pc the utorrent wouldnt install on, renaming the install file fixed it

Deleting temp folder content frequently solves installer issues. Some program which crashed before might have left something there irritating the installer.

Logitech software is also to be blame a lot of times!

I find my work PC with 2 screens doesn't fire up installers sometimes unless one screen is disabled. Odd bug for sure, but my work PC is old and odd!

Logitech software is also to be blame a lot of times!

Is that so? I do have a G15 keyboard and the LCD drivers installed... I'll be sure to try quitting that in future (assuming that's sufficient just to close/quit the LCD driver program?)

Multiple NTVDM's that a lot of people don't even know they've been started.

BuckoA51 wrote:

Logitech software is also to be blame a lot of times!

Is that so? I do have a G15 keyboard and the LCD drivers installed... I'll be sure to try quitting that in future (assuming that's sufficient just to close/quit the LCD driver program?)

I had that Logitech Process Monitor bite me years ago (using a web camera): Big List Of Dodgy Apps [*].

* A list of applications that interfere with the normal working of Cygwin by intrusively injecting themselves in the system call chain. First used on the Cygwin mailing list by Dave Korn.

Encountered this issue again today while installing the game Rollcage. I disabled all my startup apps and that cured it, so it's something that starts with my PC. I'm not one of these people who goes "oh I better not run that it might affect my fps by .0000001%", actually quite the opposite so I don't know what particular bit of junk/useful software it is that is causing the problem. It doesn't seem to be the Logitech keyboard stuff but I need to investigate further really.

Traced the problem with Metal Fatigue to, you guessed it, Logitech Gaming Software! Seems it's not always enough to just exit the program, you have to exit and reboot without restarting it.

Shame as I do use the LCD on my G15 keyboard.

I had that problem happen with the installers of kool karaoke, viavoice outloud 4.0, and creative soundfont librarian. I'm doing a disk cleanup, just to be safe.

I doubt that will help, unless you're critically short of disk space.

because it didn't. I don't have any logitech stuff on this pc, so logitech gaming software is out the window, too.