TroubleShooting Error 1606 While Installing Old C1Studio Installers

Many times our customers have reported issues wherein they are trying to install pre-VS2008 version of ComponentOne Studio Installer but the installation fails with following error : "Error 1606 : Could not access network location 0" This error occurs because these old installer of C1Studio were NOT tested with either VS2008 or Windows7 environment as these were not available at the time of release of installers. As these installers looked in a different registry location to detect Visual Studio, the only thing that can be done for such an old installer is to provide a work around. You may try the steps provided in this blog for installing these old setups. 32-Bit Machine :

  1. Go to Run, then type regedit. Press enter and the registry editor will open.
  2. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Setup\VS, and select it.
  3. If you do not have a value named ProductDir, add it.
  4. Set the value of the ProductDir key to the path of VS2008 on your machine. For example, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0
  5. If you do not have a value named EnvironmentDirectory, add it
  6. Set EnvironmentDirectory to the path to the IDE directory on your machine. For example, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE
  7. Run the setup again, and see if it works now.

64- Bit Machine: Keep in mind that if you are running a 64 bit version of windows, you will need to look under the Wow6432Node of the registry, and the Visual Studio paths should refer to Program Files (x86). Here are the instructions modified for 64 bit:

  1. Go to Run, then type regedit. Press enter and the registry editor will open.
  2. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Setup\VS, and select it.
  3. If you do not have a value named ProductDir, add it.
  4. Set the value of the ProductDir key to the path of VS2008 on your machine. For example, C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0
  5. If you do not have a value named EnvironmentDirectory, add it
  6. Set EnvironmentDirectory to the path to the IDE directory on your machine. For example, C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE
  7. Run the setup again, and see if it works now.

You may also refer to the following forum link where a similar issue has been discussed : http://our.componentone.com/groups/general/general-discussion/forum/topic/47749 If the problem persists then please contact our Support team at our Forums.

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