I can't install Paint, Calculator etc!

One More Solo · 17 Feb 2006 at 23:07

I forgot to install the utilities when I last formatted so went to Add/Remove Progs, then to the Windows utility bit and began an install for the stuff I'd missed. I start the install but then it starts asking for files like "clipbrd.ex_", and I only have a file called "clipbrd" which it won't accept. Tried to rename the files but that didn't work, so now I'm stuck! Help! I need the volume control and calculator or I'll cry.

One More Solo · 18 Feb 2006 at 17:43

Please?

Kerplunk · 18 Feb 2006 at 17:55

What OS?

One More Solo · 18 Feb 2006 at 20:12

XP Professional, sorry should've mentioned that.

Kerplunk · 18 Feb 2006 at 20:26

What do you mean by 'windows utility' bit?

I dont recall such options when installing :\

konicky · 19 Feb 2006 at 01:02

Aren't the files on the XP disc?

uknorthboy · 19 Feb 2006 at 09:57

Go to control panel>add/remove proggrame>add/remove windows components.
Make sure the xp disk is in the drive.

Slam62 · 19 Feb 2006 at 10:20

you must have messsed up particularly well, i dont know how not to install them.

One More Solo · 19 Feb 2006 at 12:02

uknorthboy said:
Go to control panel>add/remove proggrame>add/remove windows components.
Make sure the xp disk is in the drive.

Did you read the OP? That's what I've tried and it doesn't work.

I CBA with a full Windows reinstall for Calculator!

M0KUJ1N · 19 Feb 2006 at 12:49

Try including your CD-ROM drive in the "InstallationSources" key of
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Setup and trying again.

You could also try using sysocmgr with the components "Vol=on" and "Calc=on" in the answer file. I've got a few scripts at work that do this kinda thing, so I can install/uninstall Windows components via GPO

Kerplunk · 19 Feb 2006 at 13:54

One More Solo said:
Did you read the OP? That's what I've tried and it doesn't work.

I CBA with a full Windows reinstall for Calculator!

I still dont see how it didnt install, which section of the install asks you which components you want to install?

PaulB · 19 Feb 2006 at 14:04

Is it an original full version of XP you are installing from or is it a customised CD - by using something like nLite - which may have had certain components removed?

An XP installation doesn't ask you what components to install during the setup process unlike some previous versions of Windows.

marc2003 · 19 Feb 2006 at 14:05

insert xp cd into drive. now open a command prompt. now type this command

expand d:\i386\calc.ex_ c:\windows\system32\calc.exe

where d is your cd drive and c is where windows is installed. repeat for any other apps, you get the gist of it....

One More Solo · 19 Feb 2006 at 23:35

marc2003 said:
insert xp cd into drive. now open a command prompt. now type this command

expand d:\i386\calc.ex_ c:\windows\system32\calc.exe

where d is your cd drive and c is where windows is installed. repeat for any other apps, you get the gist of it....

Yes!! You sexy beast, thanks a lot!