re: Windows Installer Keeps Popping Up
Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 9:43 pm
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.
>
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