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Thread ID: 51716 2004-11-28 08:22:00 Installing Firefox/Thunderbird on a Win98 box crashes at 100% Extracting Chilling_Silence (9) Press F1
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297286 2004-11-28 10:52:00 Thanks Beama,

I gave back the PC at the start of the night to my mate - With IE-4.0 :-(

I had installed Spybot after I formatted it but hadnt installed either the resident scanner nor the IE Protection - Never have......

So I'll chat with my mate and see if he can use WinRAR that I installed to manually extract the files :-)

Cheers


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
297287 2004-12-31 20:53:00 Hey guys,

Still no luck :(
Wont work....
Tried multiple downloads of Thunderbird and its just a no-go :(

Thunderbird just exits upon "verifying archive".
I copy it across the LAN however and use that same insstallation file on my familys WinXP PC to update them from 0.7 to 1.0?!

What gives?

Tried extracting it with WinRAR and running it - Same outcome :(

Checked the mozilla forums and there's one or two other instances. I added a comment as guest I was having the same issue but nobody else has replied.

Any ideas?

Cheers


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
297288 2004-12-31 21:05:00 Chill happy and safe new year
you maybe able to cheat that install
a while back someone posted a link to a usb install of firefox which simply meant you unzipped a archive. You could try doing that on your friends pc using this usb install, I think you'll be able to figure the rest out. 		beama (111)
297289 2004-12-31 23:29:00 Chill: have you tried older versions of Firefox and Thunderbird? They may work... then you might be able to run the new version installers. wintertide (1306)
297290 2004-12-31 23:46:00 If you are wanting a different browser to Internet Explorer I have found that Opera runs quite nicely on a slow Windows 98 computer. Better than Firefox in fact. FoxyMX (5)
297291 2004-12-31 23:56:00 Im actually mostly after Thunderbird for the time being to be honest.

Right now my grandparents have 5102 emails in their Inbox online waiting to be downloaded.
I'll ring Ihug and ask them to clear it, but they need some permanent spam solution.

I dont want anything but Thunderbird - even Mailwasher is too much for them.

Thanks


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
297292 2005-01-01 00:18:00 Right now my grandparents have 5102 emails in their Inbox online waiting to be downloaded.
I'll ring Ihug and ask them to clear it, but they need some permanent spam solution.



I find this odd. Is Ihug using Brightmail for spam ? On Paradise, I get only 1 or 2 a month sneaking through - the rest get put into the Paradise spam repository. How is it your GPs get 5102 ?
Cheers Tony 		TonyF (246)
297293 2005-01-01 00:30:00 Right now my grandparents have 5102 emails in their Inbox online waiting to be downloaded.
I'll ring Ihug and ask them to clear it, but they need some permanent spam solution.
Umm... unless thats spam over the period of about 4 years, that is a ridiculous amount.

Better course of action would be to change their e-mail address. All the spam filtering in the world is still going to leave them with a big problem.

Also, iHug's spam filtering isn't activated by default as far as I'm aware.
www.ihug.co.nz

They might wanna turn it on.
the.ihug.co.nz 		ninja (1671)
297294 2005-01-01 02:22:00 I think I had the same problem with a 32/64mb machine. Newer FF/TB releases use 7zip to compress the archive which makes the EXE much smaller than a ZIP but needs boat-loads more memory to decompress.

Try grabbing the ZIP archive instead here (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/Thunderbird%201.0.zip). 		bmason (508)
297295 2005-01-01 11:20:00 Its over 3 months... They were afraid to check emails because of it, but they want to start emailing relatives a lot more now.

Thanks for the Zip URL, I'll give it a whirl next time I see them, around the 9th Jan.
This box only has 28MB Ram IIRC.

Cheers


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
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