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Didn't you just say it froze as well? What about
uninstalling Norton and testing? What about a list of
running programs? I can't help without any details or at
least a way to reproduce it.

The best I can offer for the current situation is that you
recompile NSIS with some message boxes for debugging
purposes that'd help you tell exactly where it freezes. My
guess is that one message box at the very top of WinMain
will do as it won't even get to it.

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Installshield setups are working in user mode, not freezing
the computer.

But NSIS freezes the computer.

Don't know what to do.

Bye,
Michael

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Just in case, I've installed Windows 2000 SP4 and tested
nsis-2.21-setup.exe. There were no crashes or freezes. So it
might be Norton after all. It makes sense it'd treat
installers differently and try to figure out what's inside them.

Let me know what was the solution when you solve this
problem. Especially if it's something with NSIS after all.

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That's really funny, another installshield installation exe
is also freezing, made from another programmer here in our
company.

And the compiled scripts exe with nsis 2.16 are also
freezing the computer.

Yes, now it makes sense, that it really sounds like a driver
problem or like a problem with a service or a program that
runs in the background, I believe that it could be Symantec
Norton Antivirus is causing the problems. I knew that our
administrator has upgraded to a newer version.

So we must analyze our computers first.

Thx for your help,
bye,
Michael

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Sorry, there is a history of older setups for nsis, will try
to recompile our installations with version 2.16 of nsis.

This could last a little bit, so please wait.

Our company homepage: www.socon.com , only for information

Bye,
Michael Kuelshammer

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Former versions of NSIS have another problem, on american or
chinese operating systems on Windows XP we had always a
crash of the installation progress crashes in the end.

After I have installed the newest NSIS version crashing
disappeared.

No I have not further analyzed the computer and all the
programs that are installed.
Our truck computers only have a minimum software installed,
only Antivirus, office programs, nothing special.

It would be nice, if one could download older versions of
nsis. I have made the mistake to delete the older setups of
nsis.

Event log doesn't give any informations at all.

Bye,
Michael

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If you have administrator rights and you are logged on local
to the machine, then script installation is working.

But our survey technician don't know how to log on the
computer with administrator rights, and I have made the
installation scripts very easy, we only install once in the
office with administrator rights, then the next
installations our technicians do only with user rights.

Installation with user rights freeze the computer.

Installation with administrator rights, and logged on our
domain server in the office, it freezes also.

But in former version of nsis it was no problem, to install
with user rights, or without it.

That's the problem.

Michael Kuelshammer

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Does anything special show in the event log after you
reboot? How long have you tried waiting for it to unfreeze?
Do all of your company's computers have the same hardware,
drivers and software installed? Can you attach a list of
running processes, using Hijack This
[http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php#hijackthis]?

I have to say it sounds like a hardware or driver problem to
me. Completely freezing the computer is not something you
should be able to do in user mode. Does it happen with any
other programs? What about other installers? Have you tried
older versions of NSIS installers, like 1.98
[http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nsis/nsis198.exe?download]?

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Sorry for opening a new thread, but I went to another
computer, looked at the bug tracker and the thread has
disappeared, so I thought, that only bug reports from
registered user will be listed and someone has deleted my
former thread.

You can take any of the scripts that were installed with
NSIS, for example NSIS\Examples\Modern UI\MultiLanguage.nsi
or any other script from the Modern UI folder.

We are working on a German operating system. We have
Symantec Antivirus 10.1.4.400 installed, but I have also
tried to start the compiled scripts, with Symantec Antivirus
disabled.
We are a surveying company, in all our trucks Win2k
computers are installed. In our home offices there are
Windows XP computers installed, there isn't any problem,
when installing the compiled scripts.

No, you can't look in any event log, because if you double
click on any compiled nsis script then in that moment Win2k
is freezing. You can only do a hardware reset.
Ctrl-Alt-Delete and then try to end the process doesn't work
anymore. You can't open any explorer window.

It is freezing, before any of the installation dialogs
appears on the screen. Just when you double click on the
installation exe the operating system is freezing.

Very strange thing, we tested on several computers on the
trucks of our company.

Try to find out, if there are other programs in the
background, that could be the cause for this problem.

Bye,
Michael Kuelshammer

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Nothing was added that shouldn't work on any version of Windows.

Many details are missing from your bug report. Please attach
a complete script that can reproduce this problem and
include more details about this freeze. Does anything show
in the Event Log? What programs are you running in the
background? Did you test this on more than on W2K computer?