I had to delete the SPlunk folder in Program Files, stopped splunkd that was running and then reinstalled again and it worked. once it is done installing, the program window may be hard to see, just hit enter and it will bring you to the UI localhost:8000 where you login. lol,I had to delete the directory where Splunk was installed in (Program Files) and then stopped splunkd processor, once i did that, the installation rolled back. Then I closed and reinstalled it again. it worked!
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