Windows 10: Windows will not allow a setup to start and is looking is wrong location for files?!?!

Hello,I am trying to reinstall a copy of solidworks on my new work PC.We have downloaded the setup file necessary to start the Solidworks Installation Manager but when we ask for the setup to start, We get the UAC prompt and then nothing happens. We have located all the necessary files on the PC for the install to work but it wont start. I get a prompt when asking windows to run as administrator giving me a error that its unable to locate the file on my C:/ drive not the rom drive it should be looking in. I have attempted this reinstallation on 2 other PC's and it works completely fine. It see

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Windows 10: Cortana setup will not allow me to select Location


What puzzles me is this: "The system cannot find the file specified".
Exactly how are you trying to start the geolocation service?
However, see
Windows 10 Startup - Microsoft Community

where the solution I suggested matches what you are reporting.
Do check that as you said, and post a screenshot of the relevant part of your registry if not fixed.

Otherwise:

Can you post a screenshot of Settings, Privacy, Location please?
Also one similar to this..



Is the RPC service running?

 

Location service is greyed out

Hi Shahriar,

Thank you for responding.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused for you, I suggest you to try the below troubleshooting steps and check If it helps.

Step 1: Steps to turn on the Location settings.

• Login as an administrator.
• Press Windows key, type Location settings and select
  Change location settings.
• Check whether Location for this device is On by clicking on
  Change.
• Also turn on Location as well.

Step 2: And as you are unable to set the service Geolocation service to automatic, I suggest you to run SFC scan and check.

System File Checker is a utility in Windows that allows users to scan for corruptions in Windows system files and restore corrupted files.

Follow the below steps:

• 
  Right click on the Start button, click on
  Command Prompt (Admin).
  
• 
  Type “sfc /scannow” without the quotes and hit
  Enter.
  
• 
  After the scan, restart the computer and check for the issue.
  

Try to set the service to automatic by following the steps provided in the above post by Praveen Venugopal.

Hope it helps. Kindly update the status of the issue, we will be happy to help you.

 

RealTemp log file location when RealTemp started as scheduled task

When I start RealTemp manually, the RealTemp log file location seems to default to the folder in which the application is started.

When I started via a scheduled task, to start automatically when my laptop resumes from sleep, no log file appeared to be created.

The support team provided the answer, which is as follows:-

The problem is that when you use the Task Scheduler to start up RealTemp, when RealTemp asks Windows for the RealTemp folder location, Windows replies with a sub folder in C:\Windows. Same Windows function but it gives different answers depending on how RealTemp is started.

If you open up C:\Windows in File Explorer and do a search for RealTempLog.* ; you will find the log file in a subfolder, in my case C:\Windows\SysWOW64. The actual folder may vary with your version of Windows.