{"id":744,"date":"2005-09-13T20:25:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T23:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=744"},"modified":"2005-09-13T20:25:39","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T23:25:39","slug":"missing-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Missing in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>arlier today, I had an error coming up while installing a piece of Microsoft software: &#8216;The Installation\/Removal of a Previous Program Was Not Completed&#8217;. After a search in both the filesystem and registry, I ended up finding the culprit in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\system\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager section. Apparently, one of its keys (PendingFileOperations) was still not empty, therefore not allowing me to continue installation.\n<\/p>\n<p>The registry: what can one say about that monstreous part of Windows. Here&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been wondering about: why was there no &#8216;datestamp&#8217;\/&#8217;timestamp&#8217; field added to (any) key added or modified in the registry? It would have <em>saved<\/em> time to figure out <em>which<\/em> key was added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, I had an error coming up while installing a piece of Microsoft software: &#8216;The Installation\/Removal of a Previous Program Was Not Completed&#8217;. After a search in both the filesystem and registry, I ended up finding the culprit in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=744\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}