Maybe the http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35230
I may be wrong but it seems to me that guide doesn't cover installing Wrye Bash, but USING it.
The thing is I have already once installed Wrye Bash successfully before. And I've read through the installation process multiple times. The fact that I can't install it right now, even while following instructions explicitally, it's really driving me crazy.
I've done everything essentially right- I've installed things in the correct orders, even uninstalled all the componentst and reinstalled them from different locations. Tried the installer form of Wrye Bash to the archive form and nothing works, I always get that annoying green snake icon for the Wrye Bash launcher, and it brings me to that notice instead of the actual program that I want.
I'm doing everything right, I'm almost positive I am. I don't know what's causing all this.
I've pretty much ruined my game, or at least how I want to play it- without Wrye Bash I can't get all the mods I want working properly together and I can't continue to repair my hard work at getting one of my characters back into the game... I feel stuck now on this Wrye Bash nonsense because I think I am doing everything right, but it is still coming out wrong. If anyone could help me some time I'd really appreciate it.
EDIT: More details. Just to be sure I was installing it right, I installed it onto my laptop the exact same way I did it on my desktop. Lo and behold- it worked just fine on my laptop. So there is definitely something going on here on my Vista machine vs. my XP Laptop.
I have User Account Controls disabled so that Vista won't do any weird conflicts. It was the unrecommended option to fix the UAC issue that Oblivion has, but it was still listed on the Wrye page as an option.
EDIT AGAIN: The delimma continues. I found that Python v2.5, which I had in my hard drive when I originally installed Bash, was still there sitting right next to the new 2.6 that I installed. So I deleted it and 2.6, once again I uninstalled every Python component using add/remove programs. Then I tried to reinstall everything... and now Windows doesn't recognize any Python files at all! I SWEAR I installed everything correctly, just as I did on my laptop when it worked... now I can't even launch Wrye Bash at all... At least earlier it had SOME sort of recognition, but now when I launch the Wrye Bash Launcher.pyw file, Windows doesn't know what to do with it at all.
I had uninstalled all Python components and looked around in my program files for any left-over things before I attempted to reinstall again, but to no avail. I must've uninstalled/reinstalled it over and over so many times by now and there's absolutely no way for me to know what will work and what won't... My laptop is not powerful enough to actually run oblivion, and so this is really depressing me. >.<
I really hope someone has a solution... because at this point I have no idea what I'm doing wrong or what my system is messing up with. I swear I did everything right- I know for sure because I did the same thing on my laptop that I'm doing on my PC.
The issue might reside somewhere in the fact that I have installed Wrye Bash before, a long time ago- and it worked *fine*. It was probably using an older build of Python and something might be conflicting somewhere. I have no idea what, or how... I really hope someone knows...