Flash Builder 4 Install Error

So I attempted to install the new Flash Builder 4 the other day and got this error:

Exit Code: 7

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– 0 fatal error(s), 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)

ERROR: Custom Action for payload {177E1CA1-14CC-4398-AB15-A5746EFE8F22} Adobe Flash Builder returned error. Failing this payload.

ERROR: The following payload errors were found during install:

ERROR:  – Adobe Flash Builder: Install failed

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00-37641-141726032010

I am running a 64 bit version of Windows 7 that easily met the requirements so it was throwing me for a loop. After looking at the install log file a good friend of mine noticed that my windows user name had a special character in it (the ‘&’) and suggested that I make a new admin user without any special characters in the name. I did that and it worked. If you run into this error and are banging your head against the wall check your user name. Thanks again Josh for the find! You can check out Josh’s blog by clicking the link I have to it on my blog.

Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error.

If you have ever received this error it can be quite frustrating and there are a lot of not so helpful answers out there on the web. Because of that I wanted to post this real simple solution. All you need to do is add an event listener to the item calling the URLRequest. Here is a simple example using a Sound object:

var audio:Sound = new Sound();
audio.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, handleIOError);
audio.load(new URLRequest("myfile"));

function handleIOError(evt:IOErrorEvent):void
{
//handle error if needed
}

It’s that simple. I hope this helped! If this helped please post a comment so that others can find this simple solution.