Quicken 2007 Revision 3 is ready - but won't install for me

Hi, again, formerprof.

Just to close out this thread...

See my reply to the new thread you started today: Vista and Quicken, continued.

By running QWPATCH.exe from a Command Prompt window opened as Administrator, I was able to patch to Release R3. So I'm all up to date now.

Thanks to you and all the others for your help.

RC

For the record, you have conflated two users, formerprof and DP. I'm the latter. Not really important, but just thought you might want to know.

Hi, DP.

Thanks for straightening me out on that. I see that, a couple of posts ago, you quoted a message from formerprof - and I misread it to think that it was your sig.

I apologize to you - and to formerprof.

RC

No biggie. BTW, looks like I may get q07 basic for free when I go buy turbotax, so I may try that as my default install on Vista once Vista comes out in a couple of weeks. Right now I'm using RC1 of Vista Ultimate. As an XPx64 user I can buy the upgrade edition of Vista but will have to do a clean install. So once I do that, I'll be Vista all the way instead of dual-booting as I am now. So I'll use that opportunity to install 07.

Hi, DP.

Encountered this yesterday, both when attempting to install commercial software (ours) from CD and also when attempting to run an application that doesn't require installation: always the same message, a directory name and "The directory name is invalid". So I took the message literally and moved the .exe into a directory under "Program Files" and it ran happily. Then copied the entire contents of my installation CD into a directory under "Program Files" and that was able to install. So an easy fix, but does anybody know what's going on here? Our two best theories are (A) the application needs an accompanying manifest file or (B) there is a Windows policy setting "Only Run Executables

Al