If the executable was locked at the time of installation (due to av-scanning or whatever else the system may have been doing), any installer would ask the OS to replace the locked file at next boot.
It's a shame you didn't just reboot.
I have 5.1 on a few machines, I'll mess around with the installer a little bit and report back.
Topic: Version 0.5.2 install issue on Windows 7 (minor issue) (Read 644 times)
I had version 0.5.1 installed, and then I downloaded and installed version 0.5.2. I ran Bitcoin-qt, and when I click about, it says that it's version 0.5.1.
So I simply uninstalled 0.5.1 and installed 0.5.2, problem solved.
But I'm not sure why the installer wouldn't overwrite the older version.
So I simply uninstalled 0.5.1 and installed 0.5.2, problem solved.
But I'm not sure why the installer wouldn't overwrite the older version.
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