At 20:30 11/30/98 -0500, Gary Kaucher wrote:
>I am running on Windows 98. I just downloaded an evaluation copy of
>Dr. Solomon's FindVirus (ds95eval.exe). In trying to install it I
>get a message that says-
>
>"Setup is unable to find a hard disk location to store temporary
>files. Make at least 877KB free disk space available and try running
>setup again. Error 101"
>
>My HDD is about 2 gigs and more than half of it is free. I ran Disk
>Cleanup, Scandisk, and Defrag; but I still got the Error 101 message.
>Any ideas?

Hi Gary

Check to see that you have a folder named C:\Windows\Temp present.
If that folder is missing from your hard drive, create a new folder
named Temp in C:\Windows.

Check your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files (they're in the root
directory of C: and you should open them with Notepad) to see if
there is a line like "SET TEMP=C:\Windows\Temp" present (but without
the quotes of course). If TEMP is set to something other than
C:\Windows\Temp, change it to C:\Windows\Temp.

Normally, this config.sys line in not needed, but if another location
is Set as the Temp folder, maybe that's the problem...especially if
that folder is missing.  It couldn't hurt to add this line to
Config.sys and see if it helps.

You might also empty your recycle bin. Also check to see that
you don't have too many files or folders in the root directory
of C:. (I'm thinking that if a program thinks c:\ is your temp
folder, and you have reached the limit for items in C:\, nothing
more could be added to c:\, including temp files created by
scandisk and defrag.) If you have, for example, much over a hundred
files and/or folders in C:\, try to delete a few unimportant items
and see if that helps. (The actual maximum number depends on how
many of them have long file names.) These are the stock things to
check when a drive unexpectedly runs short of space.

Another approach... Open a DOS box (from within Win98, go to
Start, Programs, and click "MS-DOS Prompt") and type in the DOS
command "Set". What do you see? You are looking to see what is
specified for the environmental variable "Temp". Type the command
"Set Temp=C:\Windows\Temp" (without the quotes) in the DOS box.
Try to run your programs. Did it help?

If none of this helps, someone else will have to take over.

Regards,
Bill

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