NET Framework giving me fits

I am so sick of .NET Framework. It has to be unequivocally, unarguably, and indubitably the worst program ever written by Microsoft.

I have been fighting with this mess for three days and I am no farther than when I started.

I cannot load 3.5 because it says I have not loaded 2.0 sp2.

I try to load 2.0 sp2 and it says I haven't loaded 2.0a.

I search for 2.0a and it does not exist. The Microsoft database does not have it anywhere in their search engine.

2.0 just simply won't load at all. I get error 25007. One help site said to rename a directory and then it would work. It didn't work!

Help sites have been no help at all. The Microsoft help pages are no better.One says that I need to load 2.0 SDKd but when it ends it says it cannot load because 2.0 is missing. The link on the page titled "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0" takes me to a page that is for .NET Framework 4.0!

4.0 says that it needs 3.5 loaded before it will load but it loads anyway.

3.0 won't load because it says it needs the phantom 2.0a.

3.5 won't load at all.

In desperation, I finally ran the program which removes all copies of .NET Framework except 1.0.

1.1 loaded just fine but 1.1 sp1 fails.

Is there ANY place I can find a step-by-step instruction for loading these programs from a RELIABLE source????

HELP!!! :cry

 

Is this the utility you used for cleanup. It is supposed to able to remove from version 1 to 4.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2008/08/28/8904493.aspx

I would remove .NET using ADD/Remove programs in control panel and then the cleanup tool.

Then install version 2 first skipping version 1.

 

I have tried everything to get this thing to work. I tried going from the earliest version to the latest to no avail. In one post it says that I should install from the latest version downward because the latest version has all of the earlier versions incorporated into it. No luck.

I am to the point of formatting the drive and starting with a fresh install. After all, most of the programs I have don't work well or at all without the .NET Framework of various versions installed. I'm hoping that if I do a fresh install that the automatic update will do what is necessary. I actually have little confidence in this because the auto update got stuck on trying to update the same version time after time after time.

There has to be a way to get this done without a destructive restoration. What that is has so far escaped me.

 

See if the solutions in this thread helps. I would not delete the policies folder if you are using Windows 7 which I do not think you are. Reading your first post, I think you may have already seen this. Have you tried installing

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/netfxbcl/thread/47c93410-2ee2-4dd1-812a-04475d50de7c/

One solution you can try is to do a sfc /scannow which will see if any of your protected system files needs replacing.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/ht/sfc-scannow.htm

You should have your XP install disk available and it should be the same service pack as what you have on your computer.

 

Okay

PROBLEM SOLVED

BUT ...

Now the thing wants me to download and install the 1.1 sp1 update but it fails every time.

Any thoughts?

 

Can you tell us how you solved the problem. It may help other people in the future who search here.

For the SP1.1 problem see if this fix will work.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889109

 

Mostly dumb luck. I restored the computer back to a date where everything was almost correct and started there. I then ignored the update requests from automatic updates and downloaded the files from the webpage to my computer and then ran them locally.

I ran the verify program but 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5 fail miserably. Verify dies right in the middle of the scan and apologizes for the inconvenience. Something is still amiss. I am going to try the sfc /scannow command to see what happens. I have an XP sp3 disc so maybe that will help.

That seems to have worked. 1.1 verifies. The automatic update is now gone but has been replaced by THIS UPDATE. That one fails but I am going to try the local download and install to see how that works.

 

okay. I think that I have discovered part of my problem. I have been treating this computer as an XP sp3 Home Version when in actuality it is an XP sp3 Media Center Professional version.

I tried the sfc /scannow utility and it states that I need to insert the XP sp3 Professional disc 2. Unfortunately, all I have is a single disc version. How do I find a two disc download that I can use? I thought that it might mean the four disc recovery set but that did not work.

I was able to download a single disc CD from a Bittorrent site but it was useless. Does Microsoft have disc sets for download? I have a legal version and the key. What I don't have is the disc set.

 

I never heard of a sfc /scannow requiring a second disk. Sorry, I am not familiar with the Media Edition. Did it come with 2 disks? Hopefully somebody here on the board can add something. So, you have installed everything up to 3.5 except 3.5 SP1? Was there an error code when the install of SP1 failed?

 

The problem is that the WME came as the default OS for this laptop so I have no idea what the OS discs should look like.

I downloaded a copy of Win Prof sp3 from a Bittorrent site and thought that would suffice. Unfortunately, the unit does not recognize a single disc installation. It simply keeps stating that I have inserted the wrong disc and that I should insert disc 2 of the Windows Professional sp3 software.

I could do a reinstall but this unit is an HP unit that came as a bundle and the software is proprietary to this unit. I don't know what would happen if I did an install of the WP sp3 from a full blown copy and I don't know if the Media Center edition would be loaded. I have the recovery set of discs that I made when we bought the unit and that may solve everything but I do not know if that would be a destructive recovery or a non-destructive recovery.

I tried the following from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951847

The files and folders were there but not erasable. I had to use Unlocker to kill them but the installation still failed.

I then looked to see if the folders existed anywhere else on the drive and they did. I deleted them but, again, the install failed so I restored them to where they had been originally.

This whole thing is such a mess. The verify program fails for 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5, and the file checker won't replace the corrupted files without the multi-disc set.

<SIGH>