re: Windows Installer Keeps Popping Up Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 9:43 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by baran220 (1 messages posted) This is the typical Microsoft insidious disease, they think nothing through to the end and so it screws up our computers and they are bullet proof. I have over the years, on line, upgraded my Windows XP home from the original version 2001. Everything was fine until I made the mistake of down loading SP3 but I did create a restore point just in case. Well, SP3 was a mistake and I went back to my restore point. This is when Windows Installer reared its ugly Microsoft head and somehow after restore eliminated a file named “fax.msi” and ever since then my CPU has been so screwed up. I cannot find this file on my CPU or on any other XP sotware yet every time I try to install a new piece of software this same “fax.msi” missing file prevents me from doing so. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Windows Installer as per their directions but as usual they suck at actually fixing a problem that they created. I hate Microsoft with a passion. On Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 8:54 am, Rob Waterbury wrote: >The windows installer keeps popping up saying "preparing to install" without specifying >anything after that. This started when I started testing installations built by a >number of the setup wizard (i.e. PDM, Visual Installer, Wise, etc.). Thus I think >I may have built an incomplete setup that has corrupted my registry. > > >I've tried fixing the problem with the msi clean up utility but it doesn't show any >of the installations that I created. Also I've removed any of the installation programs >that I can. > >If I try to install or uninstall an application, the windows installer pops up a >message that the "service is not available cause we may be running in safe mode...contact >an administrator". > >The only thing I can find on the web is this related KB article. I'm runnig SP6 of >visual studio. >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316911 > >Any help would be appreciated. > Written in response to: Windows Installer Keeps Popping Up (Rob Waterbury: Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 8:54 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Windows Installer Keeps Popping Up (Rob Waterbury: Sun, Mar 6, 2005, 8:54 am) re: Windows Installer Keeps Popping Up (baran220: Thu, Mar 25, 2010, 9:43 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum