program installed but, it's not there?

I installed Nero 9 today, or at least I thought I did, but when the installation was complete there was nothing to be found. It didn't give me any errors or anything during installation, I don't know what the deal is. A friend of mine said something similar happened to him with a different program. I tried searching on this problem but haven't come up with anything yet. Anyone have any ideas? Any help is appreciated.

 

Are you running Vista as a standard user? (I.E. you have a separate admin account) If so, I noticed that a few software programs place their shortcuts only on the Admin's Start menu and Desktop because UAC was used to allow them to install.

I'd check to see if they are in that account first.

 

Yea , somtimes desktop shortcuts will be created only for user with which you have used to install the app

Just go to c:\Program files(x86)\ and search for nero there

 

Yep, I'm using Vista Ultimate x86. It's not even in Program Files or the Uninstall Programs list. I had had it installed and was having some problems with it so I uninstalled it to reinstall it and I don't think it uninstalled correctly. When I went to reinstall it, the installation seemed to go quite a bit faster than it did the first time but like I said, no error messages or anything.

 

Use a program such as Revo Uninstaller and it will be able to show you if it is installed or not. Then you can properly uninstall it and try again.

 

Thanks for the link but Revo didn't show anything Nero related. I can't find anything Nero on the computer unless I do a search of everything under "Computer" with the box checked that says "include hidden, system files, etc.". I'm not sure what the files are that show up but they might be stuff that was extracted prior to installation. I may just format and reinstall Windows anyways, I've been meaning to and hadn't gotten around to it.

 

if the Nero 9 setup has a separate .msi file, you can run msiexec /L nero.log /I nero.msi to generate an installation log. It may give you some idea why it is failing. Also take a look in the Setup event log.

 

The setup file is a .exe file. Can I still generate an installation log? Where will the log end up? Thanks for the help so far everyone.

 

Try running setup /?. Some setup programs have command line parameters.