Did you disable any virus/malware checker before installing? If not, then do that.

Do you know how to bring up the Windows Task Manager to see what else is running?

What OS are you running?

Does it still happen if you reboot?

Did you try to install into the /Program Files folder? That won't work. Use the default, /BB


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