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Title: "Astronomy Picture of the Day" Application Installer Error
Post by: majormagna on January 05, 2011, 05:51:51 PM

I'm having issues with the Installer for the Astronomy Picture of the Day desktop application (http://nightskylive.net/software/apod/). When in my Firefox 'Downloads' folder it keeps saying "Another installer is currently running. Please wait for it to complete and try again." I know for a fact there are no other installers running.

I tried moving it to my desktop, and running the installer again; this time I get a WinZip error message; "Error 0 running command SETUP.EXE"

 I'm running Windows 7 64 Bit if that helps.

Title: Re: "Astronomy Picture of the Day" Application Installer Error
Post by: Nebula on January 05, 2011, 06:42:31 PM

what version of it did you get... 2005 or 2008?

Title: Re: "Astronomy Picture of the Day" Application Installer Error
Post by: majormagna on January 05, 2011, 07:55:36 PM

Didn't notice the 2008 one; but I just downloaded and tried; still no luck, this time I get:

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The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you are Running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of this program, and then contact the software publisher.

Tried in compatability mode, was a long shot anyway; looks like I need a 64-bit version of APOD.

Title: Re: "Astronomy Picture of the Day" Application Installer Error
Post by: Nebula on January 05, 2011, 09:25:28 PM

yup looks like it is a 32 bit program only.

btw does this program just dump pictures on your desktop background or does it do it in its own window?