[mikkerbuddy]

I have seen this various times on different computers with different software installs. I have just installed a fresh copy of xp on a laptop and did the windows updates. I just installed Adobe reader 8 and when I went to install Sonic record now I hit the setup.exe and nothing happened. Task Manager showed Sonic running. I read somewhere on a different forum problems with adobe reader. So I uninstalled Reader and no problem installing Sonic. Not sure but I think Reader 7 has the same problem. If you log on as a different user with administrator privileges usually the software will install also. So this is just a guess, but whatever user installs the adobe reader gets corrupted software installs somehow. Hope this helps.