SERIOUR: MSI Upgrade Problem

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Hi All

I am having the WIN2K OS with SP4 Installed. I wanted to upgrade the Version of MSI Installer(Msiexec), But not able to upgrade because of the "WIN2K SP4 file protection".

What is the solution to upgrade MSI Installer from 1.2 to 2.0 (Higher version) on WIN2K with SP4

If any one knows please write to me at (e-mail address removed)
Thanks in advance.

Regards
Vivekanand

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

I am having the WIN2K OS with SP4 Installed. I wanted to upgrade the
Version of MSI Installer(Msiexec), But not able to upgrade because
of the "WIN2K SP4 file protection".

What is the solution to upgrade MSI Installer from 1.2 to 2.0
(Higher version) on WIN2K with SP4.

Hi

Win2k SP3 and SP4 installs MSI 2.0 by default, so you will never
find version 1.2 on a SP4 computer (unless someone has hacked a
downgrade of MSI after the SP install, see link further below).

Try the methods one by one outlined here to fix Windows Installer problems in
Win2k and NT4:

PRB: Incorrect Default DCOM Settings Cause Windows Installer to Stop Responding

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;319624


After running through the four steps in the URL above, also try
this from Start/Run:

msiexec /regserver

If that doesn't solve your problem, and you have MSI 2.0 installed, downgrade
to version 1.1 (somewhat messy), and then install MSI 2.0 again:

Downgrading Windows Installer (Win2k):
http://desktopengineer.com/article.php?story=20020710141950674