No real metalworking content, but you guys seem to know something about
everything. So here goes.My son was re-installing a game (Battlefield
2, if that helps...)on his computer. Partway through, the instalation
failed for some reason. It sort of hung for a second and then bailed
out of the installation, no error messages or anything. The game used
the "Installshield" installer. Now, whenever you try to install
anything that uses the Installshield installer, it won't do it. It
opens the installer, runs through a couple of "preparing the installer"
progress boxes, then just blinks and vanishes, never completing the
install. Nothing shows up in the "add/remove programs" thing in the
control panel. We have done all of the virus and adware/malware scans
and tried running a registry repair utility (Registry Mechanic) to no
avail. While I know my way around OK, I am certainly no computer
wizard.

Any ideas? Anything else I ought to try? Anybody seen this before?
HELP!!
The computer is an athalon 3200, OS is Win2K pro.

Thanks for any thoughts,
AL