Windows XP Installation Failure
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After an unfortunate series of events, I have to reinstall Vivaldi on my Windows XP machine. I am using the file Vivaldi.1.0.435.46.exe which was originally used to install Vivaldi.
The first attempt used the original download file, which failed. A copy of the same file was downloaded which also failed to install. The two files are identical.
The sequence of operations is as follows:
- window security message (vivaldi.1.0.345.46.exe)
- introductory message (Accept and Install)
- progress bar repeating
- window security message (vivaldi.exe in local settings) Run
- a different security message. Run
Then nothing. The installation files are deleted.
What is happening and how do I continue?
To anticipate the usual responses:
No, I am not going to update Windows, for obvious reasons.
No, I am not replacing Windows with Linux on this machine. I have Windows programs that are not available on Linux. -
@CharlesAshford
Not much I would suggest other than using the last Vivaldi supported on XP and earlier:
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@CharlesAshford , You will not have many options, apart from getting on the internet with an obsolete OS and browser with the risks that it entails.
I understand that you have programs that you want to continue using and that there are only for Win XP (?????) but with this you have the only valid option to keep XP for these programs and use a Linux Distro on another partition with current Vivaldi to navigate.
In dual boot you can choose then which one are you going to use each time.
For Linux, maybe Q4OS would be a good choice, which is perhaps the closest in UI and handling to XP and therefore it will not cause you problems to get used to it. -
It seems that the installation had actually worked but when the program was executed, it simply deleted itself without any error messages.
I was actually able to find an XP installation on a dead laptop which I was able to transfer over and it worked. Finally it proved possible to actually complete the installation by first removing all Vivaldi references from the registry.
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@CharlesAshford , I understand that you want to keep the XP for some programs, what I do not understand is the recklessness of wanting to mess with an absolutely obsolete browser and OS on the net, it is to get naked in a jungle, apart from that half of the pages will not even run or accept you-
In XP you cannot install more than the first versions of Vivaldi and many websites already get hysterical when you try to enter with a Vivaldi without updating last year (see posts about it in the Forum).
Pay attention and also install a Linux distro, it is free, although you will only use it to navigate, but then you can do it with a current Vivaldi. -
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