When trying to install programs, I'm getting "The Windows
Installer Service Could Not Be Accessed" error message.
The registry is pointing to the correct image location, so
that's not the problem.

I also tried reinstalling Windows Installer, but I was
unable to do so. I renamed msi.dll, misexec.exe and
msihnd.dll to .old and rebooted, but the files were back
when the reboot completed. When I tried to run the
download to reinstall Windows Installer it said that we
already had that service and stopped running.

When I try a "net start msiserver" at the command prompt,
I get "System error 5. Access is denied."

I am running from the only user account on the machine,
which has administrator privileges. Help!

try
msiexec /unreg
msiexec /regsvr

"Mark Levesque" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:19c9601c44d88$c95e0690$(E-Mail Removed)...
> When trying to install programs, I'm getting "The Windows
> Installer Service Could Not Be Accessed" error message.
> The registry is pointing to the correct image location, so
> that's not the problem.
>
> I also tried reinstalling Windows Installer, but I was
> unable to do so. I renamed msi.dll, misexec.exe and
> msihnd.dll to .old and rebooted, but the files were back
> when the reboot completed. When I tried to run the
> download to reinstall Windows Installer it said that we
> already had that service and stopped running.
>
> When I try a "net start msiserver" at the command prompt,
> I get "System error 5. Access is denied."
>
> I am running from the only user account on the machine,
> which has administrator privileges. Help!
>