Tim, Although not exactly the same symptoms we have experienced a similar issue and resolved it by killing the regsrv32 process. Get to the task manager either by using Ctrl/Shift/Esc or other means and kill the task. If it works then the install will pick up on the next step. Dwayne Landry PPG Industries Inc. -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lowell, Timothy Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:20 PM To: 'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [foxboro] Software Install failure We had a Software Install fail on a P92 running v.8.4.2 recently, and I was hoping somebody out there had seen this particular type of failure and could enlighten us on what they think might have caused it. The purpose of the Software Install was to run a commit disk through with a new CP and some new workstations in a different area of the refinery. We wanted this P92 to know about those changes so the new stations would show up in System Monitor and be accessible with FoxSelect and so on. This particular P92 had no new CP's to host or any other significant changes to its own files, just a few PCHANG's for SysMon. After the Software Install environment is invoked, the box reboots, and the commit disk is requested and loaded, the process always stalls at a dialog box that reads "The system is now modifying registry settings" or something like that. When we checked the installation log, it always stops at the last entry for modifying the registry, as compared to older installation logs from successful commits. The next step that never runs is "Setting of Environment Variables". We have some third-party services running on the box, but we either uninstalled or disabled these services and re-ran the commit with the same results. Has anybody had a failure similar to this? As usual with Software Install failures, the standard answer is a Day Zero of the box. We will do that when time and circumstance permit, but if we had an idea of the cause, we might be able to avoid this in the future. Thanks, Tim Lowell Tesoro Refining Companies 19100 RidgeWood Parkway San Antonio, TX 78259 210-626-4929 (work) 210-253-0225 (cell) Timothy.lowell@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Timothy.lowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave