Insane Installer Package

[HoppaLong]

I've got broadband, but I keep my old dialup service

with Juno. Its $9.95 a month. Very cheap insurance.

Broadband where I live is not completely reliable. If

a client wants to contact me and the broadband service

is down, I can still receive emails. As slow as dialup

is, it never fails to get me connected.

Juno has been a rock for me, so I'm very reluctant to

dump their service. Their servers have been prompting

me to install a new version. I don't like to install software

when I'm connected through dialup, so I tried to find

a link to download the new version. I actually had to

email them to get the link. Normally, when there is a

new software version for any ISP, the URL is displayed

very boldly on their homepage. Very strange!

The installer package is screwed up bad. It does not detect

the old version, or prompt you to uninstall the old before

installing the new. Instead, it immediately starts the install

of the new version in the default, C:\Program Files. Previous

versions would simply overwrite the old with the new files.

Imagine the mess you would have if two versions of the same

app were installed in different partitions.

I used one of my image backups to restore the system. (There

is no such thing as too many backups.)

The installer package is not a self extracting executable. I

wish it was. At least I could use a compression app like

WinRAR to extract the files manually.

I contacted Juno about this problem, but I'm not sure there

is anything they can do. Someone needs to fix this installer,

and that could take months.

Is there any app I can use to assist in the extraction and

installation of this package to the correct location?

[DigeratiPrime]

I thought that was an essay

Anyways try UniExtract to unpack the installer.

http://legroom.net/software/uniextract

You can probably setup your dial-up connection manually without additional software. What OS are you using? All you really need is the access number and login credentials.