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Repair Windows Installer Service in Vista (All Versions)
This solution didn't work for me. I did all the steps and replaced
the registry key, but nothing happened, i kept getting the same error. I have the problem kinda pinpointed though: at least in my case, it's caused by one of the windows updates - i haven't figured out which one yet though. My next step will be install the updates one by one to figure out which one is messing the whole thing up, but that takes a lot of time The weird thing is, with so many people complaining about it, howcome haven't they issued a report about it yet... I'm seriously thinkin bout going back to XP |
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Repair Windows Installer Service in Vista (All Versions)
You must have UAC on to install or uninstall Adobe/Acrobat products cheers Daniel -- daniellouwrens ------------------------------------------------------------------------ daniellouwrens's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/daniellouwrens.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-set...all/828082.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Repair Windows Installer Service in Vista (All Versions)
this did not work for me:S i followed all the steps and when i tryed to start the windows installer i get the same as i did befo the service windows installer started and stopped again some services stopps when its not in use of some program... srry for my bad english and i tryed to translate from norwegian hope u can help me xD thanks -- mosbakk123 |
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Repair Windows Installer Service in Vista (All Versions)
this did not work for me:S i followed all the steps and when i tryed to start the windows installer i get the same as i did befo the service windows installer started and stopped again some services stopps when its not in use of some program... srry for my bad english and i tryed to translate from norwegian hope u can help me xD thanks -- mosbakk123 |
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Repair Windows Installer Service in Vista (All Versions)
Those links for the reg files are no longer working. Can someone please upload a clean copy of that reg file? Thanks! -- lacolocho |
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Repair Windows Installer Service in Vista (All Versions)
Here is a fix that I have finally found and it worked on my computer. For the past month, I have been trying to install the 64bit edition of Itunes onto my mom's new computer. She has Vista Home Premium 64bit edition. Everytime we tried to install itunes we would receive this error: "The Windows installer service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running windows in safe mode, or if windows installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance" Actually, everytime we tried to install any 64bit program we would receive this same error. I searched high and low and tried countless solutions. Unregistering and reregistering the installer service, stopping and restarting, using the Windows installer cleanup utility, etc...none of these things helped. Today I came across a blog "Think#Knowledge Blog" that SOLVED my problem. This is the solution that worked for me: Go to this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\MSIServer Look for WOW64 and it's value. Is it 0x00000001 (1) ? This value tells Windows Installer only to deal with 32-bit installers and to return you an error whenever you try to install something that is 64-bit. To fix it, just set the value to 0. So you will see in your editor: WOW64 REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0) After changing the value to zero, restart your Windows Installer Service by using services.msc or reboot. This simple solution of changing the 1 to a 0 allowed me to finally install Itunes on Vista 64. -- F'n Vista ------------------------------------------------------------------------ F'n Vista's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/218812.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-set...all/828082.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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