I have Vista Home Premium 32bit on a Dell 1525 laptop. Whenever I try to
load a new program (or when automatic updates are attempted) I get error
saying "This application failed to start because msi.dll was not found."

I have tried downloading the latest MS Installer but I get similar
messages. I finally gave up and decided to reinstall the operating
system. I didn't get far doing that when I got a message saying
"Install Windows: SETUP.EXE Unable to locate component. Msi.dll not
found. Need to reinstall. (not word for word but close).

Does anyone have ideas on how to fix the installer problem?

Thanks!


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gmanob

Hi,

Click start and type CMD. Right click the command prompt that appears in the
start menu and choose 'run as administrator'. Click continue at the UAC
prompt. From the command line, run "sfc /scannow" and allow it to validate
the system file set. There may be some .log errors, but you can safely
ignore them for this. Once it completes, close the command prompt and retry
loading a program.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"gmanob" wrote in message
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I have Vista Home Premium 32bit on a Dell 1525 laptop. Whenever I try to
load a new program (or when automatic updates are attempted) I get error
saying "This application failed to start because msi.dll was not found."

I have tried downloading the latest MS Installer but I get similar
messages. I finally gave up and decided to reinstall the operating
system. I didn't get far doing that when I got a message saying
"Install Windows: SETUP.EXE Unable to locate component. Msi.dll not
found. Need to reinstall. (not word for word but close).

Does anyone have ideas on how to fix the installer problem?

Thanks!


--
gmanob