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On my lovely Vista machine I recently downloaded the Adobe Flash CS3 30-day trial, extracted the files, double-clicked 'Setup.exe' and sat back and waited to be prompted for an install location.

I was shown the following for about 5 seconds and then it disappeared and nothing ...

... so I tried again, this time watching the process appear in the Windows Task Manager | Processes list ... and then disappear again ... hmmm

Eventually I tracked down the solution in the Adobe Forums and it turns out that the Microsoft JScript Library needs to be manually registered like so:

- Open a command prompt (run as 'administrator')
- Type: cd "%systemroot%\System32" and press Enter
- Type: regsvr32 jscript.dll and press Enter
- You should get a dialog box saying "DllRegisterServer in jscript.dll suceeded.", click OK

Now when you run 'Setup.exe' the installer will run successfully.

Just had problems with the WebPoll database randomly disappearing and crashing the application.  It runs on an instance of SQLEXPRESS which, I have just found out, has AUTO_CLOSE enabled by default.

AUTO_CLOSE closes the database when the last user closes his or her connection and all processes in the database have completed. When a user then tries to connect to the database, SQL Server reopens the database, generating the following message in the Application Event Log:    Source: MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS     Description: Starting up database 'WebPoll'