http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: setup problems en-US Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:46:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/search.php http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661#post-59859 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:40:04 +0000 hotdoge3 59859@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p><a href="http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/65254-zip-file-support-restore.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/65254-zip-file-support-restore.html</a></p> <p>Vista Tutorial - ZIP File Support - Restore</p> <p><a href="http://www.vistax64.com/software/89005-new-version-7-zip-released.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.vistax64.com/software/89005-new-version-7-zip-released.html</a></p> <p>DOWNLOAD AT: <a href="http://www.7-zip.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.7-zip.org/</a><br /> NOTE: Be sure to download the correct 32 bit or 64 bit (x64) version for your version of Vista. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661#post-59658 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:46:41 +0000 aRenegade 59658@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Take control of your computer now with "What's Running 2.2" If that doesn't help you troubleshoot the problem you're having...throw your PC out the window and take up knitting....lol</p> <p><a href="http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx</a></p> <p>Your Very Welcome</p> <p>- Renegade - </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661#post-59569 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:23:37 +0000 Robert 59569@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I'd suggest re associating Winrar with ".zip" files.<br /> Go to options-settings-integration in your Winrar menu.<br /> (or/and use the "open with" option you get when right clicking on a zip )</p> <p>_______________<br /> Hiya notblocklox.<br /> How's things? :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661#post-59520 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:38:39 +0000 BuBBy 59520@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Running unlocker you might be able to find out which other process had the file in use. </p> <p>Knowing the filename that is in use - and what is using the file, would go a long way to solving the problem. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661#post-59519 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:17:38 +0000 notblocklox 59519@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi,<strong>aydbayk &#38; joebart333</strong>, have you ever tried <a href="http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/">UNLOCKER</a> ? This little programme has helped me - <em>a non-techie</em> - several times solving annoying error messages.<br /> Good luck! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661#post-59515 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:56:18 +0000 aydbayk 59515@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>thanks to administrator and others, but both successions: extracting in an empty folder or opening with 7zip did not help (as stated above by joebart333<br /> too)<br /> my system is vista 64 home premium, IE8, F-secure (no separate security programms next to it) and no extra media manager beside MS' </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661#post-59468 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:49:50 +0000 Robert 59468@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It migth help if we knew more about the programs you're running on your computer.<br /> If BuBBy's solution didn't help, you must have another process or service that interferes.</p> <p>Now that can be loads of the things.<br /> Next thing to look for:<br /> Most brands come up with their own media manager,indexing new files for faster access(f.i. if you're using a Dell that would be "Dell Media Mangager").<br /> Disabling might help.<br /> A lotta multimedia programs do the same thing.Nero for one has a service called 'Home'.</p> <p>Another possibility could be you're using a separate security program next to your antivirus/firewall or even.. a badly configured firewall...a lousy antivirus... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661#post-59459 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:28:24 +0000 joebart333 59459@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>EVERY time I try and run set-up from software from this site, I get 'the process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process' error message.<br /> I use 7Zip as advised and unzip to empty folders but I get this error message for everything I download from giveawayoftheday.<br /> This is a great site with loads of software I'm interested in but nothing will run - help! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661#post-59438 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:11:24 +0000 BuBBy 59438@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <blockquote><p>I download the programm in zip. file (WINRAR). wenn I run setup.exe I receive in most cases the warning "the file cannot be reached because used by another application" although no other application runs at that time. I have this issue in 90% of cases.</p> </blockquote> <p>The solution is to not run setup.exe from inside the zip file. Best results - extract the zip file contents into a new &#38; empty folder, and THEN run the setup file from a normal folder location.</p> <p>Running a Setup.exe from inside a zip file sometimes works but there are a lot of factors that can cause it to break.</p> <p>Programs don't actually run from inside the zip file - but are extracted to the TEMP folder - and lots of setup programs extract intermediate files required during setup - to the TEMP folder... and you can end up with a file being "in use by another application" </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661#post-59432 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:01:36 +0000 hotdoge3 59432@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>jZip &#38; <a href="http://www.izarc.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.izarc.org</a> for Email make 700 MB go down to 2 MB kgbarchiver take long time</p> <p><a href="http://kgbarchiver.net/?page=faq" rel="nofollow">http://kgbarchiver.net/?page=faq</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661#post-59396 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:53:01 +0000 knighthawk 59396@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Another you could try is to be found here.</p> <p><a href="http://www.zipeg.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.zipeg.com</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661#post-59381 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:41:02 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 59381@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Try using a different archiver such as the freeware 7Zip.</p> <p><a href="http://www.7-zip.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.7-zip.org/</a></p> <p>I had a similar issue with winrar some time ago. So used 7 Zip, which solved the problem. </p> <p>regards</p> <p>Whiterabbit </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/5661#post-59380 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:28:55 +0000 aydbayk 59380@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I download the programm in zip. file (WINRAR). wenn I run setup.exe I receive in most cases the warning "the file cannot be reached because used by another application" although no other application runs at that time. I have this issue in 90% of cases. </p>