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First encounter with Origin: garbage?

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I downloaded ME3 from Green Man Gaming, and got to the part where I needed to install Origin. Origin installs and checks for updates, I can't skip. So I installed the update and got a message that it can't create Origin.exe and it fails, every time. Anyone else encounter this? Thanks.
 
Reformat.

No seriously, reformat.

Ok really serious now. Re download it. After you clean your registry. Then try installing after a reboot.

Probably something ea screwed up but origin works fine for me so far.
 
maybe some antivirus that blocks or something? doesnt sound normal..
 
Check this link ... http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/8228961.page

Might be causes by some anti-malware program you're running, and it flagging Origin during its install and removing files. So then updating isn't working, but thats because Origin never installed right due to other applications you're running.

My guess is Origin is working just fine, but you have other software that broke it. Only you're seeing the problem reflective through Origin, thus blaming it.
 
I think it's part of a more irritating larger problem. For months now, I can delete things from my C drive as well as G (games) and F (downloads/storage) and sometimes I am denied access. Additionally, I can look back where I deleted something and it appears to still be there. If I F5 a bunch, it doesn't change. If I click it, it says the file is gone, but only after I reboot do I see changes. I didn't reinstall windows 7 very long ago, I hope I can fix that somehow. Any ideas? Thanks.
 
Riddleofsteel said:
I think it's part of a more irritating larger problem. For months now, I can delete things from my C drive as well as G (games) and F (downloads/storage) and sometimes I am denied access. Additionally, I can look back where I deleted something and it appears to still be there. If I F5 a bunch, it doesn't change. If I click it, it says the file is gone, but only after I reboot do I see changes. I didn't reinstall windows 7 very long ago, I hope I can fix that somehow. Any ideas? Thanks.
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being denied access to that much is pretty bad. If you can't set admin for the whole drive and child folders then reformat and be careful to make sure you're giving your username full admin.
 
piscian18 said:
being denied access to that much is pretty bad. If you can't set admin for the whole drive and child folders then reformat and be careful to make sure you're giving your username full admin.
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I'm always admin. When it first happened, I read around on google and concluded it was a corrupt user account. So I switched over to a new user account, still as an admin, but the problem still happens.
 
Riddleofsteel said:
I'm always admin. When it first happened, I read around on google and concluded it was a corrupt user account. So I switched over to a new user account, still as an admin, but the problem still happens.
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When I've experienced this it was a corrupted partition and window was improperly reporting it as an access issue. Scan for issues with the partition I spose.
 
piscian18 said:
When I've experienced this it was a corrupted partition and window was improperly reporting it as an access issue. Scan for issues with the partition I spose.
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I'm just going to format it whenever I get a video card. I was hoping this wasn't the root cause, but I really think it is. Windows 7 setup wouldn't let me just create a partition on my SSD, I had to wrangle with it to get one made. I think I might also try to "refresh" my SSD's to get them back to factory condition when I do it. Thanks.
 
Wish I could help you but it's so much more tempting to agree with you that Origin is garbage.
 
Riddleofsteel said:
I'm just going to format it whenever I get a video card. I was hoping this wasn't the root cause, but I really think it is. Windows 7 setup wouldn't let me just create a partition on my SSD, I had to wrangle with it to get one made. I think I might also try to "refresh" my SSD's to get them back to factory condition when I do it. Thanks.
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That will probably help. Usually the only solution after a while. Especially for EA software for some reason. It just plays poorly with others. Especially the BF series for example. I had to reformat for BF2 so many times...
 
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Never have to leave home to purchase games.


Digital downloadz makez muh PCzzzz.
 
Stop blaming Origin when it's your own user error as you have admitted to. This is how stupid bunk comments like "ORIGIN SUCKS!!" get started. Origin works fine.
 
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