Windows Installer Keeps Popping Up
Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 8:54 am
Posted by Rob Waterbury
(1 messages posted)
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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