Thanks Michael --- sorry if the detail wasn't enough to diagnose, I was really trying to see if anyone else was experiencing problems. I'll answer your questions below.
1) What do you mean by crashing on startup?
What is crashing because I can't know from the 2 sentences that you've posted.
Well, by crashing on startup --- I mean -- when I finished installing, it seemed to crash while trying to start up the program. It's hard to get more descriptive at this point because each time I try to start the Windows Management Console -- I get this: http://screencast.com/t/etdY60qBv6LS notification, and of course nothing starts working. (the error message is coming from a program called Soluto --- that monitors the system).
2) What does Event Viewer say regarding these crashes?
Did you check Event Viewer logs?
I hadn't checked the Event Viewer --- but I did today since you asked, what I see is the following around the time of my install: http://screencast.com/t/nUvh0TjY
3) Why did you remove directories and registry entries?
I tried to follow the instructions that were provided when it checks for an existing installation -- this mentioned after uninstalling to remove certain registry entries, folders, etc --- I have used version 8, and 9 of 3CX with no issues in the past.
4) Did you try and install 3CX on another machine?
Haven't tried another machine yet, I'm sure it will work fine with some other machine -- I'm guessing that it's something unique in this case but trying to figure out what it is. I do have another computer, but this one has been running 3CX up until now -- I'd prefer to keep it that way.
It would be great to figure out what the issue might be, if you have any ideas please let me know.
Thanks,
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