# dotnet framework problems

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Wednesday, 19-May-2010 16:45:07

Oh my gall, y'all. I'm having some issues with dotnet framework 2.0, and a heck of a time repairing it.
I have been googling and reading like crazy, but still unsuccessful.
I would like to try to repair it via add/remove, but I need to locate the installer. I don't know how to do this; the Netfx20a_x86 file?
Any instruction is appreciated.

## Post 2 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Wednesday, 19-May-2010 22:38:56

Here ya go: Here's where the link points to, never ever download a Microsoft semicore or core component from a non Microsoft site unless you know who they are:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5
Read the instructions and download the file. They'll say in the instructions to select Run, but based on your situation I would instruct you to save it to a known location. If you don't know what that means get you someone who can help you: nothing to be embarrassed about, most my family wouldn't know what it means either.
Now uninstall the version you have on your computer. That means go back to Control Panel Add or Remove Programs and find it, and this time pick Remove.
Before you do this, close everything you have open except your reader or magnifier of course.
Restart your computer at least twice preferably three times. This purges your current and backup copies of the system registry - the mega database that tells your computer what is installed where, amongst many other things.
Now find and click on the file you downloaded and the installation will start, pick all the default options and restart the system even if it doesn't ask you to.
At the beginning of this message I mentioned it's a semi-core component, meaning it's not critical to the kernel (part that makes your computer start among other things), but it is critical to what are called bridges between interfaces, so your games can more readily connect with parts of your computer they need. Why you may need to have several versions of .Net on your computer is beyond the scope of this message but suffice it to say they have different components.
HTH,
Robo

## Post 3 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Thursday, 20-May-2010 13:36:34

Robo, thank you.
Unfortunately, I am unable to uninstall the dotnet framework. It mentions something about other applications depending on it, then after that message appears, I get one talking about a fatal error during installation.
I only noticed these problems because I was trying out a calendar program and I keep receiving a dotnet framework error.
Repairing this thing is a pain in the butt.
Question: what else could this be effecting? What could be red flags of a dotnet framework problem that I have missed? I'm just curious on that one.
I'd still like to fix the problem.
Something one website mentioned, which I did not understand. Is using the /t command to extract the installation file?
Here is another URL that had directions.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306160
I do have the windows install clean up utility, I wonder if that would help me?

## Post 4 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Thursday, 20-May-2010 19:28:02

The /t switch will let you extract to a target location from which you may run setup. You would bring up your Run dialog, click Browse, use the list with enter and backspace to move up and down the folder structure and when you fint the file, press ENTER. Then, at the end of the file name edit box, ad a space followed by /t followed by a path to a folder you have made to extract to. Then run setup from that folder. You may need some help over Skype and a remote service like PNC or Tandem, or whatever your reader uses to allow remote control.

## Post 5 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Thursday, 20-May-2010 21:08:02

I didn't answer your last question fully because I was on a mobile device, and on my way to Taco Bell.
The framework is used by some applications, as I said in another post many times games, though you said you have a calendar that uses it. Possibly it just does because it's newer and they're smart, or because it must integrate with Office, which .Net does more securely than did the old VB6 standard interfaces.
Anyway download the installer and if it's an MSI do as I mentioned last time, otherwise just run the .exe file. If it asks about repairing the installation, try that first. I dare not give you any more specific advice, not without looking at your system myself. Perhaps a budding young stud (or studdette) of a tech weenie from here can get on and help you. You'll be safe with Skype but I don't know about their Team Talk software / how expensive it is on your processor, as I've never had occasion to use it. Whoever helps you should make notes on what's been done and what the results were, as well as the steps they took.
The support article is a good one though.