Installer seems corrupted; service is not accessible!

M

Mark Levesque

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!
 

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