bdb66
12-21-2010, 11:01 PM
Hey everyone,
I dont mean to create yet another help thread, but I have gone through all of the faqs, both on this site as well as post gres, as well as searched through numerous google threads without being able to pinpoint an answer. I'm sure it has an easy solution, but here goes. I'm using windows xp media edition, and when i first try to use the combo installer i get the basic 'failed to establish a connection to 127.0.0.1". I trouble shot through that section, with no results. I deleted all anti virus/fire walls. One thing i couldn't do was find the link to turn off UAC. I'm not sure if thats only for vista and windows 7, but when i follow the faq and go to user accounts it's not there. I've also logged on as administrator and enabled all users administrator access and i still get the same result.
Then i believe it said to try to log onto local systems account, so when i go to services in administrative settings, postgres database server is not there. Then i uninstalled everything, including deleting the service account, and tried to do a fresh install of just postgres from the main website, and i get this error message "error reading file c:/programfiles/postgressql/8.4/data/postgresql.conf"
Sorry for the long post, but i'm really frustrated. If anyone knows what i should try next please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
I dont mean to create yet another help thread, but I have gone through all of the faqs, both on this site as well as post gres, as well as searched through numerous google threads without being able to pinpoint an answer. I'm sure it has an easy solution, but here goes. I'm using windows xp media edition, and when i first try to use the combo installer i get the basic 'failed to establish a connection to 127.0.0.1". I trouble shot through that section, with no results. I deleted all anti virus/fire walls. One thing i couldn't do was find the link to turn off UAC. I'm not sure if thats only for vista and windows 7, but when i follow the faq and go to user accounts it's not there. I've also logged on as administrator and enabled all users administrator access and i still get the same result.
Then i believe it said to try to log onto local systems account, so when i go to services in administrative settings, postgres database server is not there. Then i uninstalled everything, including deleting the service account, and tried to do a fresh install of just postgres from the main website, and i get this error message "error reading file c:/programfiles/postgressql/8.4/data/postgresql.conf"
Sorry for the long post, but i'm really frustrated. If anyone knows what i should try next please let me know.
Thanks in advance.