Problems with windows installer on xp

How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to A. User's post on November 9, In reply to Doctor Jellyface's post on November 10, If you are seeing an error message, what does it say exactly and when do you see it, and as usual we don't know anything about your system so that leads to guessing.

Here is a pretty popular example of a Windows Installer error message that might be what you might see when trying to install a program or clicking the "Change" or "Remove" button in Add or Remove Programs on an already installed application: Windows Installer may be corrupted or your computer is in safe mode or perhaps this message: The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed.

This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance. Instead of contacting your support personnel for assistance, do this: Click Start, Run and in the box enter: services. Look in the Services applet to see if the Windows Installer Service is even listed and you will find that it is probably not listed but it should be listed.

You don't have to set it to Automatic as it will start on it's own when it needs to start and you don't need it starting every time you restart your system and running all day when there is nothing for it to do. The Service will start when it needs to start if it is able to start. Click OK enough times to save your adjustments and close the Services applet, restart your system to be sure the changes "stick" and see how things look now. If your installer is NOT version 4.

Then check your Services again to be sure the Windows Installer Service is listed, and check your installer version again to be sure it is version 4. Then test your original failure condition and report your results.

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New x64 and Msix64 properties: Packages can now use the x64 and Msix64 properties to indicate x64 processor-based operating system support. Flyweight patching is now an opt-in behavior: Windows Installer 3.

By default, this functionality was enabled for all patches. The MsiGetFileHash function now works correctly for very large unversioned files. These files may be about 2 GB.

The MediaSrcProp property of a patch is now set to the original launched-from location when the patch is installed. The MediaSrcProp property is set to the cached patch location for subsequent transactions. Target information for a custom action is no longer logged when the custom action fails if the custom action is marked to hide the target.

Applying a full-file Windows Installer 2. Sequence column of File table includes values larger than In Windows Installer 3. This issue is now fixed. The patch sequencer no longer incorrectly rejects a valid patch during administrative image patching. Windows Installer no longer fails silently when the installer tries to update a file that is protected by the Windows File Protection feature. For help in troubleshooting Windows installer issues, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:.

You can also search the Microsoft Knowledge Base for articles that are specific to your application. Progress bar now works correctly even if the package installs more than 2GB of files. Patching of isolated components now works.