Ever think about beginning a new thread about /your/ problem, instead of
"piggybacking" onto all these other threads, no matter how similar their
problems may be?
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~PA Bear

tnlindsey wrote:
> I have been unable to install the .NET update. I am running Windows 2000
> Professional on an IBM ThinkPad Laptop. I do not have any beta versions
> of .net installed. I have Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 as well as the
> hotfix for it - (KB886903). I tried installing it with the critical
> updates, then seperate from the critical updates. Both times I got error
> 0x659; I have no idea what that error means.
>
> Additionally, as recommended on this forum, I tried going to the Microsoft
> .NET Framework developer centerand downloading/installing it directly from
> that site
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframewo.../default.aspx).
> I tried installing the Redistributal Package (2.0 x86) as the site says
> this must be installed before installing the SDK 2.0 x86 package. It was
> unable to install; the error message said that it either could not open
> the installation package or a required file.
>
> The only thing I have yet to try is to uninstall the 1.1 version (and
> hotfix) before trying to install the 2.0 version. I did not think this
> was necessarily causing a problem since all the posts I have read so far
> said that only those people with beta versions had to uninstall them
> first.
>
> I will post again once I have tried uninstalling version 1.1 first.\
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