Insufficient Disk Space to Install: WRONG

Greetings. I'm trying to install the most recent flash player
9.0.45 on an elderly computer. It currently has 7.0.19 installed. I
am minorly computer savvy but staying with a friend who is not and
her computer is an OLD HP running Windows XP. I've downloaded the
installer but receive this error during installation:
You do not have sufficient disk space to complete this
installation.
Please free 5000k and try again.
This drive currently has 1.47 GB of free space. I'm baffled.
Any help?

The Adobe Flash installer for Windows version "9,0,45,0"
checks the
available space on drive C:\. If there is less than 5 MB
available
installation will fail. It fails silently on MSIE 6 with only
the
message: "Installation Failed [Try Again] or [Cancel]".
With Firefox it actually says there is not enough space.
This is a BUG in the Adobe installer. Windows programming 101
says
"NEVER hardcode drive letters". The installation program
should be
checking one of these environment varibles:
HOMEDRIVE=E:
ProgramFiles=E:\Program Files
SystemDrive=E:
SystemRoot=E:\WINNT
windir=E:\WINNT
As you can see, on my machine Windows is installed on drive
E:\.
This is a Dell PC with a new reinstall of Windows XP SP2.
I did a fresh install, not an upgrade or repair.
For some reason Windows XP selected my ZIP-250 removable disk
as
drive C:, the CDROM drive as D:, and the hard disk as E:\.
-No big deal, as I don't care if Windows is installed on E:
instead
of C:. The point is that Windows did this, not me. I assume a
lot of other computers out there have the same configuration.
Since no removable disk was in the ZIP-250 drive, the space
available on C:\ was 0 MB (zero MB).
I put a ZIP disk in the drive, and Flash Player installed for
Firefox with no problems. I removed the ZIP disk, and tried
the
MSIE 6 install again and got the same error:
"Installation Failed [Try Again] or [Cancel]".
I shoved the ZIP disk into the drive, clicked [Try Again],
and it
installed. Geez! -That was 2 hours I'll never get back!
Windows has been out for nearly 20 years now, and some
programmers
still don't know to use the environment varibles? I CANNOT
believe
anyone would hardcode "C:\" into an installation program.
Why check for disk space anyway? Just install and tell
backout
if things go south. Also, the "subst C: E:\" work-around
suggested
earlier did not work on my system. Likely because C: already
was
present. I haven't used subst since the 1980's on a DOS
program.
Such a work-around is inexcusable.
Scott Mickey

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Edited by: Tshifhiwa on 2012/01/27 2:40 PM
Edited by: Tshifhiwa on 2012/01/27 3:44 PM
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Edited by: Tshifhiwa on 2012/01/27 4:05 PM<Sigh!>
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