Quicktime or other "lightwieght" applications totally messed up computer.

Hi! Someone that I know has a really sweet windows computer (alienware grade). One day when he was using it, it just like...died. After checking the hardware/just trying to turn the dang thing on, nothing happened. Everything is fried, like the harddrive and some other things. Even a great program called SpinRite doesn't recover the files. Does anyone here know what the cause of this would be?

Why did you post here?
What gave you a suspicion that QuickTime software was even involved?

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Here is the problem though. Quicktime fails to even start up. It just fails with a error and doesn't even show the Windows error report for it. Quicktime will not uninstall or repair also, so I can't remove it and then try to install it again.
Here are the errors from the installer. These errors are after a repair or a removal attempt. The installer will not give me the option to install since QuickTime is already installed.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think all I need to do is find out some way to completely remove QuickTime so it can reinstall properly.

I followed the removal instructions in this post - http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=3366434 .
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I got QuickTime removed and my applications are working again. Now I can edit again in Macromedia Flash.
But right now I'm going to try to install QuickTime again. Hopefully it doesn't break my applications again. I downloaded a fresh copy from the site just in case I got a bad download. Fingers crossed everyone.

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