can't install Adobe CS6: machine restart may be pending

il mio problema era l'installazione di Adobe Flash Pro CS6 mi dava sempre errore,

ho installato Adobe Application Manager è tutto risolto.

Same thing worked for me. Just select Ignore and the install is sucessful

I have the same problem and try solving several way

I try the advise from t1h213n4h5 and its solving!!

Thank you for your kind suggestion

Guru7 YOU ROCK this worked for me too - thank you

I tried all of these solutions and had no luck. My issue was in upgrading from CS6 to CC. This is what worked:

Please navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe

Locate folder OOBE

Please rename that folder to OOBEold.

Go ahead and try installing Adobe Application Manager.

I got this from:

http://blog.vadervideo.com/2013/06/adobe-creative-cloud-installation.html

The last option for anyone who meet this problem, especially on windows 8. Firstly, you open Adobe CS6 file, right click set-up.exe icon and select Troubleshoot compatibility. And then, choose Try recommend setting, click Test the program. As a result, the set-up.exe begins installation process.
Also, we can try another way by right click right click set-up.exe icon and select Properties, open Compatibility tab. Now, we have 2 option to implement: uncheck "run this program on compatibility mode for" or choose windows 7 in the drop-down menu instead (because in some cases, its default mode is Windows XP). Hope these ideas may of great use to you all.

I had the same issue, no such registry key existed.  I didn't want to just choose igore and continue so I kept searching for an answer and found one.  Search the registry for "PendingFileRenameOperations" and delete them.  I found two in mine, deleted them and it installed just fine.  Be sure not to search on data, you just want to delete the keys that have the name PendingFileRenameOperations.

I found this info here: http://durej.com/?p=167

Below is a piece of it.

Now that would be awesome, if there was actually any “InProgress” key in my registry. If you read comments, that was mostly the case with most users so this advice was pretty useless.

OK. to make a long story short, I did find somebody suggesting to erase : “PendingFileRenameOperations” from registry from a certain location.

I did not find any keys in that particular location, but searching troughout the entire  registry for “PendingFileRenameOperations” revealed couple of instances.

I deleted them all and voilà ! the installer ran like a charm!

So if you have the same problem with the CS5 installer, try it, might help you as well.

Word of caution . Make sure your registry key has a NAME that matches “PendingFileRenameOperations” as there might be some keys that have this string as a data/value.

in my case it was :  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\KeysNotToRestore” key which value/data contained string “PendingFileRenameOperations” .

Do not delete those "

Various individuals have restated Adobe's own answer to this problem which is to delete the InProgress key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager. In my case, there is no InProgress key to be deleted. It just doesn't exist. Others have said to just ignore the problem. I'm never given the option. Instead, I'm referred to the Adobe Support Advisor, a singularly unhelpful piece of garbage.

Hi there,

   If the issue persists even after restarting your computer, you need to delete the Inprogress key from your registry. Follow the below steps:

Disclaimer: This procedure involves editing the Windows registry. Adobe doesn't provide support for editing the registry, which contains critical system and application information. Make sure to back up the registry before editing it. For more information about the registry, see Windows registry information for advanced users on the Microsoft support site, or contact Microsoft.

Launch Windows Registry Editor.

(Windows XP) Choose Start > Run, type regedit in the Open text box and click OK.

(Windows Vista/ Windows 7) Choose Start, type regedit in the Search box, and press Enter.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager.

Delete the InProgress key.

Regards,

Jairaj