[Qgis-user] problems installing QGIS 1.8 on windows 7-64 bit

[David M. Lawrence]

I know others are having this problem, but I have yet to stumble on the 
solution.

I am trying to install QGIS 1.8 on my laptop (Windows 7-64 bit). Whether 
I use the standalone QGIS installer or the OsGeo4w installer, the 
procedure hangs during the postinstall stage here: "running postinstall 
qgis-common.bat"

In the OsGeo4w installer it just freezes, but with the standalone 
installer, I get a dialog box with the message "find string (qgrep) 
utility has stopped working"

findstr shows up in Task Manager tying up 50 processes, and even after I 
kill the installer and try to stop findstr in Task Manager, it keeps on 
ticking for quite some time.

Later,

Dave

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