http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10309
--- Comment #6 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2008-11-29 01:09:06 --- (In reply to comment #5)
Hmm. Are we running the same software?
Yes. I was using the professional trial.
I just tried the current trial, and setup hangs towards the end of the progress bar. If you wait long enough, you see a fatal dialog box saying: "Fehlernummer: 0x80040708 Beschreibung: Unable to create required engine components, check whether you have appropriate privileges to create COM components. (0x80004005) Setup wird jetzt beendet." I get this with or without "winetricks dotnet20 msxml3", on either tax2008Professional_Trial.exe or tax2008Standard_Trial.exe.
If you quit the installer at that point, it leaves behind the inner installer in c:\windows\temp\RARSRX0, which lets you reproduce the problem more easily.
It looks like right before the apparant hang, one sees it starting ISRT.DLL, which opens a pipe, does a little com stuff (which seems to fail?), and then then sits around hangling WM_TIMER messages occasionally until it fails.
I see this now as well. I'm on a different computer though. I was testing on my mother's computer while there for Thanksgiving and killing time. At my home computer, I see your results. Only thing I can think of off hand that's different is that computer is on hardy with some crappy onboard video card (I think via?) and I've got Intrepid with nvidia...