re: How to correctly install Windows Installer (Finally fixed for me)
Saturday, August 13, 2005 at 3:20 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Callie
(2 messages posted)
You're right, there seems to be so many things that can cause this. After looking
here and on Microsoft's knowledge base, I tried a bunch of different things to fix
it.
After reading your reply, it was the second time I had heard that the install of
Service Pack 2 might be faulty. I uninstalled it and things seem to be working right
again. Thanks!
On Saturday, August 13, 2005 at 3:52 am, stratus wrote:
>Wow.. there are many many things that might cause this. It's things like this
that
>really annoy me about windows.
>
>I just did a complete re-install of windows xp pro - and started having this problem
>1/2 way through re-installing all my programmes.
>
>First I tried renaming the files to whatever.old - didn't work
>
>Then I tried unregistering and then reregistering msiexec.exe - didn't work
>
>Then I tried doing the same thing in safe mode - didn't work
>
>Then I tried starting the windows installer service and setting it to automatic
from
>manual - didn't work
>
>Then I tried disabeling dcom service process launcher - didn't work
>
>
>Finally.. I un-installed Service Pack 2 .. and Voila! I was able to install anything
>I liked. it worked! .. it was obviously a fault with the sp2 install. I'm re-installing
>sp2 now and hopefully it will continue to work.
>
>Thanks for all the great hints on this forum!
>
>Stratus
>
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