Graphics Suite problems continued........

If you are referring to uninstalling X4, there is a way to manually uninstall it using Windows Installer CleanUp Utility. Is this the procedure you tried?  Search the Knowledge Base at the Corel site under Support for 762284. WARNING. You will need to Edit the Registry. If you do not know what you are doing find some that does.

As far as reinstalling, Use you Installation Disc. You will need your License Key and you need to follow the install procedures at the same place above. Search for 762283.

And I've started compiling everything that has happened in the wiki.

That why it's so important that when someone has an issue they report how they solved it. (and used tags in the forum)

The tools I've used are here. There are 3 including a reg file that null X4.

You should always back up the registry before you muck with it.

You have to start with hardware checks as said. Otherwise if there is an error in hardware you will never find the issue in software. And this DOES happen. After raving on about it for months it happened here last week. The more RAM a system has the greater the change of a memory error.

http://community.coreldraw.com/wikis/howto/troubleshooting-computer-says-no.aspx

That the start to what I know.

These are the tools I've used.

http://imagonullius.com/corel-ng/installclean.zip

There are 3 tools...

But before you get to that you should try to remove anything X4 using normal means. That means...

Put the disk and and see if uninstall works & deleting any files you can see in the C:\Program Files\Corel folder

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 & CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 Setup Files

Now in this order

CGSX4CleanUpOldBuild.bat

PurgeX4registry.reg

msicuu2.exe

At this point you should have about as clean a system as possible. BUT you my not of resolved why the installer failed.

Now RUN...

sfc /scannow

... that checks now Windows OS files are damaged.

Now check that all DLLs that maybe required are registered.

RUN...

regsvr32 as per the screen grab.

If any of these files become unregistered there are issues and no warning are given by the OS. (suxs)

Now test that everything it good... Run Windows update, if everything is good you should see no failed updates. You want all the updates offered.

If this fails put the Vista disk in and do a repair allowing the OS to download required updates.

OK now run the installer again...

If it fails, that's OK just run uninstall from the disk and try again. (try 3 times it's taken that here, and how your face right that helps)

If it still fails then you have to use Dependency Walker link on the wiki to suss out what is missing. You car try that before you do the install if you like, just run depends.exe and open the install program. That will give you a list of what the installed it looking to use.

It's not a bad tool and will tell you what might be missing.

This might be worth a look too http://www.liutilities.com/products/campaigns/affiliate/cb/offer/dllfiles/rb/

I'm running there here to see how it goes but it looks pretty useful.

If there is a DLL missing try here http://www.dll-files.com/

Look for specific messages, there have been issues with MS XML files, but if that is a problem you should get a warning.

As ya can see this isn't just theory, I've had the issue.