Error 1606 uninstalling programs Vista Home Premium

[Baba O'Reilly]

Windows Vista Home Premium
2 GB Ram
Duo Core AMD Athlon

There are some programs on my laptop that I cannot uninstall using
the uninstaller. When I attempt to run the uninstaller I get the following
error message:

Error 1606: Could not access network location \\JTLNX01\usb0\MyDocs


This is pointing to a directory on an external USB harddrive which
is still attached to a linux box, but not at that mount point.

I did a google search and made changes to my registry as per
instructions I found, but the problem persists. It's odd because
many other program will install. I got the same problem when
I tried to install something last night, but now it seems
to be attached to the Windows Installer mechanism.

Is there a solution to this which can be implemented without having
reload my laptop from the recovery partition.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Baba,

Try mapping the path "\\JTLNX01\usb0" to a drive-letter (say Z:\) and update the shell folder path in the registry for My Documents. Set it to Z:\MyDocs. This helps in most cases.

Related article:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/msi1606.htm
--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Windows Vista Home Premium
2 GB Ram
Duo Core AMD Athlon

There are some programs on my laptop that I cannot uninstall using
the uninstaller. When I attempt to run the uninstaller I get the following
error message:

Error 1606: Could not access network location \\JTLNX01\usb0\MyDocs


This is pointing to a directory on an external USB harddrive which
is still attached to a linux box, but not at that mount point.

I did a google search and made changes to my registry as per
instructions I found, but the problem persists. It's odd because
many other program will install. I got the same problem when
I tried to install something last night, but now it seems
to be attached to the Windows Installer mechanism.

Is there a solution to this which can be implemented without having
reload my laptop from the recovery partition.