jugula Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Greetings, Looking for some help. Just downloaded and tried to install Bitcomet 1.18, the problem is that the .exe file is missing from the directory once installed. An icon appears on the desktop, but when clicked Windows 7 reports that there is not link to an executable. No I didn't deleted the exe by mistake, it's just not there. I've uninstalled and reinstalled 4 times with the same result. I've never seen this before and it's kind of difficult to run the program with no exe. Regards...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluelos Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Can you find bitcomet.exe, note the path you found it at, then right-click the shortcut, note the path where it is pointing, and post them both? (I'm mostly just curious about the details.) But you're right, it definitely should not do this. I wonder if the installer is running afoul of Virtual Storage now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greywizard Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Some system specs and system software configuration (antivirus, antimalware etc.) would be great if you can spare them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jugula Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 OK..... Not quite sure what you're looking for but, When I go to Start, All Programs, Bitcomet, the Bitcomet short cut is there, but it is not the normal round orange icon, it's rectangular with a black border and red inside. and under properties it points to C:\Program Files\Bitcomet\Bitcomet.exe..... but there is no Bitcomet.exe file in the directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greywizard Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 What is your account type and UAC status? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jugula Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 Admin and full access........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluelos Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 Does that pathname exist? Is there anything at all in the folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jugula Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 (edited) Found the problem...... It was some part of the firewall that was not allowing bitcomet.exe file to install correctly. All is well once again. Thanks for your thoughts, they got me think in another direction. Regards..... Edited January 25, 2010 by jugula (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greywizard Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 The HIPS component of your firewall should be warning you when it prevents some application from performing an action. Of course it can be set to block everything without notice, but then you're supposed to be an expert user which takes that into account and gives specific permissions to the installer file, prior to execution. But then again, in that case you wouldn't have posted this here. Except if you played with the default settings and altered them, without knowing exactly what you were doing. In which case you should walk one of these two paths: either read, learn and understand the documentation of your Internet Security suite; or if you don't feel like doing that, uninstall it and live with the Windows integrated firewall. You'll be doing yourself a big favor, since Internet Security suites while being powerful tools in the right hands, can often help you shoot yourself in the leg if you don't learn how to use them correctly. The last thing that comes to mind it that maybe you have an IS suite which blocks by default certain applications without notice, in which case I would get rid of it at once, since you don't want a security suite which takes control of your system without letting you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malgoth Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Maybe this would be smth off-topic... I've downloaded the latest BC 1.18 ZIP package from here. But it turned out to be a Solid RAR archive in fact ;) Just thought you should know, though I had no problem extracting the contents with Winrar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluelos Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 I confirm it's a .rar, not a .zip. How much of a problem that is, is a separate question. We DO NOT support the archive releases. One is expected to know what one is doing. We will not provide any guidance here. If one doesn't know exactly what one is doing then one has no business with these versions. If being a different type of archive throws one, I'd define that as "not knowing what one is doing". On the gripping hand, the file has the wrong extension. Someone's confused between intent and execution. If it's going to be a .rar file then label it a .rar, not a .zip. But if it is supposed to be a .zip, then let's make it so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia0316 Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Malgoth, thank you for reporting, also thank you kluelos. This version is changed to .zip now. Please download it again at http://www.bitcomet.com/doc/download-achive.htm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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