Coldfusion 9 Won't Install (Win 7 32Bit Prof)

Question

I am trying to install CF9 onto my Win 7 32Bit pc.  I downloaded the install and got the huge 440MB+ file called Coldfusion_9_WWE_win.exe
I double-click that file and after a few seconds I see the InstallAnywhere app begin to extract the files....  After that completes, I see a JAVA icon pop up in the taskbar and from that point on nothing happens.  I did this a few times and on the last go I just let it run when I left for work.  When I came back home about 10 hours later, it was still doing nothing.  I checked the running processes and both Coldfusion_9_WWE_win.exe and Adobe_cf.exe are running but obviously nothing is getting installed.
I tried running it as administrator as well and that doesn't work either.  What else can I do?

Answer 1

Well - Just in case anyone else has this problem - I found the reason it was failing AND more importantly the
fix....
So I extracted everything from the ColdFusion_9_WWE_win.exe file to see if maybe I could execute the install.  When you extract the file you get two folders:
InstallerData
Windows
Inside the Windows folder is the adobe_cf.exe file  When I clicked it, I noticed that almost immediately it wrote 3 files.  two files with a long number string and a .details and .notes extenstion and another called centaur_err.  When I checked these files I noticed some java errors - mainly the following:
java.lang.nullpointerexception
This got me thinking that maybe my installed version of Java was not playing nicely with the installer.  So I checked my java version by going to the control panel and opening the JAVA control panel.  I clicked about and it showed I had Java.Version 1.6.0_16.  I then checked to see if there was an update.  There was - to version 1.6.0_20.  OK, so I updated Java.  I then deleted those 3 files that were written at the last botched install.  I kicked off adobe_cf.exe again.... Same crash - but something important stuck out....  SAME JAVA VERSION REPORTED - 1.6.0_16 not the newly updated version 1.6.0_20.
Could it be, the installer had cached my old version, or was it just not looking in the correct spot??????  There is one more file in the Windows directory that gets extracted, it is called adobe_cf.lax.  Let's check that one and see what's in it????  Low and behold there is the following line in this file:
lax.nl.current.vm=resource\\jre\\bin\\java.exe
I changed this entry to point to my installation of JAVA ---- So my file now has this:
lax.nl.current.vm=c:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre6\\bin\\java.exe
I saved the file and ran adobe_cf.exe again, and YAY!!!!!! my install now works perfectly.