rebuild MSISERVER

[KL Wong]

While I am troubleshooting a MSI Installer problem, I
remvoed the registry key MSISERVER from the current
control set. Are there anyway to recover/rebuild it ?

My original problem is when try to install MSI Installer,
I got a message saying 'service already exist'.

Any help most appreciated.

B.Rgds/KL

 

[Carolyn Napier [MSFT]]

Generally from a command prompt, the following will re-add the Installer service
configuration:

"msiexec /unregister"
"msiexec /regserver"

As for your original problem, there's not enough information to really say what
the cause was. Windows 2000 already includes MSI so there's no need to install
it unless you're attempting to install a newer version using the instmsi.exe
redist for MSI 2.0. This isn't really necessary though if you already have SP3
of Win2K since SP3 already includes MSI version 2.0.

Hope this helps,
- Carolyn Napier
Microsoft Windows Installer Team

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