It Gets Worse

Ah, the Karma Gods were in fact enjoying my plight and had one more twist for me. After I had thrown up my hands and said out loud 'I give up', I put my right hand back on the mouse to click the cancel button that, having finally came to terms with, would never turn into an 'OK' button no matter how much I wished for it to happen.

A dialog box popped up saying (and I should've taken the picture) 'The installer will finish installing the current package and then exit'. Great!, I thought, that's just what I want! It's on the last package so this magical backdoor has provided for me.

Er... not quite:



Notice it's still on step 14-- still the very last step. Only now the cancel button is greyed out, as is the 'Exit Window' button at the upper right.

I wonder what will happen if I try to kill the process? Dare I?

The Agony of the Installer That Can't Quite Finish

So I'm installing the new Windows Mobile 7 SDK looking forward to seeing what it can do. I waited until the 'final' release so that most of the issues would be worked out. The first time I tried to install it, it got stuck on step 10.

So I tried it again.

This time it went through 14 steps, and it looks like its almost there. I'm just waiting for that Cancel button to turn into an OK button I can click. It just looks sooooo cloooose:



So far I've been waiting for two hours. I'm hoping that the act of posting this blog entry piques the karma gods so that the install completes.

UPDATE - Nope, even posting to the internet couldn't get the attention of the Karma Gods today. They must be too busy.