Upgrade - Error Opening File for Writing 'libvlccore.dll'

[mr-b]

Hi

I'm trying to upgrade to 1.05 but VLC refuses to install with the above error.
Other posts talk abut terminating a vlc.exe process but the only one I can find is the installation prog vlc-1.0.5-win32.exe (and yes I am showing processes from all users).

The program folder does indeed contain a few .dlls - so why are these still there?
I chose to keep prefs during the uninstall but I'd have thought there would only be some reg entries and/or config files left.
This is on Win7/64 so I wonder if the installation needs to run as admin privs?

Anway I tried to delete the file in Explorer but I can't as "the file is open in Firefox"!
Any ideas what is going on?

VLC is a great app but it's a shame that the upgrade process is so clunky.

[VLC_help]

but I can't as "the file is open in Firefox"!

You have to close all web browsers also before uninstall/reinstall.

[mr-b]

Cool - that works now.
Still rather clunky though - and there really should be a prompt to close dependent apps like other installers do.