add/remove windows components failures

[Gerard Verhoef]

Hi:

I'm using windows xp professional, sr2, latest patches on a stable system.

I wanted to install IIS in order to setup an ftp server for personal use.

I followed the instructions and tried installing it using windows components
wizard.

No matter what I install the wizard tells me it cannot find different dll
files, while those files are available and are write in the same folder
where the wizard is searching them (in fact, the files were both in the
windows\servicepack folder as well as in the system32 folder. Pointing
towards the original winxp cd (pre sr1) didn't help either.
I tried install in safe mode also, and tried installing other network
services before installing the actual IIS.

Thanks for any help

Gerard

 

[Incognitus]

Hi:

I'm using windows xp professional, sr2, latest patches on a stable system.

I wanted to install IIS in order to setup an ftp server for personal use.

I followed the instructions and tried installing it using windows
components wizard.

No matter what I install the wizard tells me it cannot find different dll
files, while those files are available and are write in the same folder
where the wizard is searching them (in fact, the files were both in the
windows\servicepack folder as well as in the system32 folder. Pointing
towards the original winxp cd (pre sr1) didn't help either.
I tried install in safe mode also, and tried installing other network
services before installing the actual IIS.

Thanks for any help

Gerard

I ran into a similar problem with add/remove windows components on a users
machine about a year ago. It turn out that the user had deleted a couple of
empty folders and then used a Registry Cleaner of some sorts to remove the
reference to those folders, once I figured out the problem, and used the
backup.reg file to return those settings in the registry everything was
fine.

I've since forgotten the cleaner and the folders that caused the problem.

Good luck.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Generally, you need to point at the I386 folder (either on the CD or under
C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Gerard Verhoef]

I ran into a similar problem with add/remove windows components on a users
machine about a year ago. It turn out that the user had deleted a couple
of empty folders and then used a Registry Cleaner of some sorts to remove
the reference to those folders, once I figured out the problem, and used
the backup.reg file to return those settings in the registry everything
was fine.

I've since forgotten the cleaner and the folders that caused the problem.

Good luck.

Thanks,

That might be the cause here also. I used CCleaner about a month ago. I
heard people had good experiences with this tool. After cleaning everything
appeared to be still in good condition and booting was faster.
Somehow I cannot find a backup reg generated by the problem, and, stupid me,
I didn't make one myself.
I should have known better I guess

Gerard

 

[Gerard Verhoef]

Hi,

Generally, you need to point at the I386 folder (either on the CD or under
C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Thanks,

The wizard suggested the servicepackfiles\i386 folder, and the specified
files indeed were there, but somehow the wizard reacted as if they were not.
I pointed towards the i386 folder on the original cd, the files were there
also of course, but again... the wizard refused to accept that. No other
message then that it could.not copy the mentioned files and the advise to
point towards them ,which I did...

Gerard

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

God I hate those programs (registry cleaners) and what they unknowningly do
to an NT operating system. Without being able to identify what it mistakenly
removed, a repair installation may be the only option to correct it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Gerard Verhoef]

Sorry to bother you again, but perhaps you can help me with this.

KB article 894351 mentions a solution for my IIS install problem.
I try to follow the mentioned "method 2" (the first solution didn't work).
I need the original and the sp2 cd. Problem is, I downloaded the (complete)
sp2, and don't have it on a cd.
I extracted the exe file, but don't know how to get something like the
sp2-cd.
The KB article tells me to enter the xpsp2 command that is supposed to be on
the sp2 cd. I cannot find exactly that on my extracted sp2 installation
executable.

Do you know how I can turn the sp2 downloaded file into an sp2 cd

Thanks again

Gerard

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

You'd have to extract the files, then burn them to CD. You might be better
off extracting them and then changing the ServicePackSourcePath string in
the system registry here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Gerard Verhoef]

I did extract the sp2 install file into a folder.
But the KB article tells me to type the command

xpsp2 /integrate:c:\winxp

at the command prompt where cd cd drive is active and the sp2 cd is in the
drive.
It seems to me that there must be something like a command xpsp2 on that sp2
cd.
In my case it must be in the folder where I extracted the sp2 executable
into.
But there seems to be no such executable xpsp2.exe or something alike) in
that folder. So burning it to a cdrom won't change that (am I right?)

Hope I'm not too much of a nuisance. Hate to bother others with my own
stupidity

Gerard

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

There should be no need to build the integrated CD, just extract the files
using -x as a parameter. And, it wouldn't be xpsp2, it'd be:

WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe -x

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Gerard Verhoef]

Thanks,

Now I think I know what I misunderstood. The sp2 cd contains the
windowsxp-KBxx file as a whole. That is the command that needs to be
executed in the KB article.....xpsp2 is simply a fancy name for that
downloaded file.

I'll get to it and let you know.

Gerard

 

[mano007]

Hi:

I'm using windows xp professional, sr2, latest patches on a stable system.

I wanted to install IIS in order to setup an ftp server for personal use.

I followed the instructions and tried installing it using windows components
wizard.

No matter what I install the wizard tells me it cannot find different dll
files, while those files are available and are write in the same folder
where the wizard is searching them (in fact, the files were both in the
windows\servicepack folder as well as in the system32 folder. Pointing
towards the original winxp cd (pre sr1) didn't help either.
I tried install in safe mode also, and tried installing other network

services before installing the actual IIS.

Thanks for any help

Gerard

I have same problem and I found this solution on Thosibas web.
Try it.

1. Click on the Windows Start Menu.
2. Click Run.
3. Run command esentutl /p %windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb
4. Install IIS through the Control Panel Add/Remove Windows Components
applet.


Mano007