Posts by jacklass

1) Message boards : The Lounge : Prince William (Message 9774)
Posted 21 Apr 2007 by jacklass
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I'm not sure whether I'm more shocked at the word 'supper' or the type of informal gathering it suggests (forks in right hands, no-one quite sure where to place the knife, over-sized steaks, asparagus out of season, and so on).

The last American to utter this word in the presence of Royalty was Mrs Simpson, and look where she ended up - in Paris, in a flat.



All of this snobishnes is really too middle class for words.

2) Message boards : BOINC client : Corrupt config data (4.45)/Error 1714 Older Version cant be removed (5.25) (Message 840)
Posted 8 Nov 2005 by jacklass
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Well old boy, I tried to find installer\\products in my HKEY_CLASSES and it isn't there. Frankly, I'm stumped, I had 4.19 running, but I uninstalled it to try downloading one or the other of these versions, and now I can't find 4.19!!

I thought I might partition my HD and load another installation of XP and try downloading there. Trouble is, I'm not quite sure how to go about it and I really don't want two OS's on my box. If I could move all my programs over to the second version and then delete the first I'd go ahead, but I don't know if I can do that and even if I can how to do it.

What it boils down to is that if the only way I can get back to Boinc-ing is to reformat and reload everything I'll have to give it some serious thought. Everything else seems to be working and a reformat/reload is a royal pain in the ass.

Anyway, thanks much for your suggestions. If you have any others you can email me at: jlass@starpower.net.

See you on the Ear board.
Jack
3) Message boards : BOINC client : Corrupt config data (4.45)/Error 1714 Older Version cant be removed (5.25) (Message 832)
Posted 7 Nov 2005 by jacklass
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Believe me Ageless, I have eliminated every vestige of Boinc from my PC I even bought a registry fixer and ran it. There is no sign of Boinc. And when I try to download 4.45 I get the corrupt configuration data error message from Windows installer. And when I try to install 5.62 I get the 1714 error message.

So I am totally stumped. I was able to download 4.19 and cruch WU's, but in trying to clean boinc out of the PC I removed it and now I find that on the SETI site 4.19 isn't available.
4) Message boards : BOINC client : Corrupt config data (4.45)/Error 1714 Older Version cant be removed (5.25) (Message 787)
Posted 2 Nov 2005 by jacklass
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Sorry Jord, nothing seems to work. I still get the error message: 1714 Older Version Cannot be Removed. Seems as though no one has any idea what the problem could be. I've tried everything anyone has suggested and short of reformatting (a fate worse than death) I don't know how to deal with this. My only option as I see it is to install a 2nd windows OS in a separate Partition and try that. But I don't know how that will effect my computer's performance. I just wish I knew how to get rid of whatever 5.2.2 is seeing. Thanks anyway.
Jack
5) Message boards : BOINC client : Corrupt config data (4.45)/Error 1714 Older Version cant be removed (5.25) (Message 772)
Posted 2 Nov 2005 by jacklass
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I have attempted to install 5.25 with no success. I uninstalled all of 4.45 and got rid of everything related to Boinc in the registry. Now, when attempting to download either version I get (for 4.45) The configuration data for this product is corrupt; for 5.25 1714 Older version can't be removed.

I am unable, therefore, to do any crunching. I need some serious tech help on this if anyone has any answers. Short of reformatting (a fate slightly worse than death) I have no Idea how to proceed.

Further to this, I have managed to download 4.19 and I tried to replace it with 4.45. I got the same corrupt config. data error message. I then uninstalled 4.19 and tried again...still no luck. Frankly I'm stumped. I hope someone from Berkeley reads this and has some suggestions. It appears that some piece of 4.45, invisible to me, is still in my computer. What it can be I've no idea.



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