read only

[kirk]

I have a brand new dell laptop with WIN XP. At my office
we use a accounting product called MAS 90. I have tried
to install our Software on more than one occasion and the
same error comes up "A read-only file in the target
directory cannot be overwritten. Please change the file
attribute and try again. Target Directory is C:\Program
Files\Common Files\ Microsoft Shared\DAO." I have read
the newsgroups front and back and have tried all of the
suggestions of the MVPs for similar problems. We have
installed this on other XP machines with out a hitch. Do
you all have any suggestions? I have contacted dell and
am put off (I will not buy from them again) and told that
it is a software issue.



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