168860 - Cannot install on WinXP SP1 (error -207, can't read archive)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 167515

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Yoni]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; Crazy Browser 1.0.5)
Build Identifier: 

Can not install Modzilla download the setup program, and run the program.  Go 
throguh the install procedure go through the proccess until Start install 
screen click next and receive the following error

Error occured during installation -Mozilla XPCOM: -207 CANT_READ_ARCHIVE

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Install error. This is probably the same thing as bug 167515, a crash caused by
a stray zlib.dll in the windows system32 directory. Perhaps a different version
of that stray library merely fails to parse the archive (which would lead to
this -207 error).

The workaround, if this is the case, is to run the installer in "Windows 95
compatibility mode" which can be accessed by opening the file's properties
dialog through windows explorer. Or by removing the zlib.dll from
c:\windows\system32, but that will break whatever program put it there.

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

dupe. if the reporter feel this is wrong reopen...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167515 ***

Comment 3

[Grace Bush]

verified dupe