Background
I have had the same laptop for about 6 years (an Acer Aspire 8920), which runs Windows Vista. I have 2 hard drives, and I use one for the OS, and one for larger applications and data. Periodically I re-install Windows (and then all the applications) to keep things running nicely. Everything has always been fine, until now:
The problem
I just cannot install Java. I have installed it before, on this laptop and on other PCs, and never had a problem with it.
To recreate the problem
- Format HD
- Install Windows Vista
- Try to install Java 7 or 8 (offline versions)
- Install gets almost to the end, then throws a 1603 error.
What have I tried so far
- Using the online and offline installer
- Turning off User Account Control
- Using PDQ Deploy, and deploying the Java 7 (32-bit) and ALTERNATIVE versions.
- Checking that I am logged in as Administrator.
- Right click on the installer and "Run as Administrator"
- Checking that my HDs are not encrypted
- Checking that my HDs are not substitute drives
- Installing to C:\Java
- Installing to D:\Java
Additional Information
Two other strange symptoms might be relevant.
- Windows is sometimes not letting me execute downloaded files. In those cases, if I copy them onto a memory stick, and unplug/replug the stick, then I can run from the stick.
- I installed another application, PSoC Creator, which in an IDE for a microcontroller, and I've had it working on this laptop before. It contains GCC, however when I try to compile code using the IDE, GCC fails with the message: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory. Again, nothing I do seems to fix this.
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