Reinstalling Windows installer

[Jeff]

I am trying to reinstall windows installer, I have
followed the folloing instructions:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;315346
Method one checked out but to no avail.

WHen I get to step 4 of method 2 and enter the commands i
get the error message that system could not find the
files. I have verified that the files are there.

What else can i do?

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I am trying to reinstall windows installer, I have
followed the folloing instructions:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;315346
Method one checked out but to no avail.

WHen I get to step 4 of method 2 and enter the commands i
get the error message that system could not find the
files. I have verified that the files are there.

What else can i do?

Hi

Sadly enough the article doesn't say/tell you to go to the
%windir%\system32 folder first before doing the rename operation,
so if %windir%\system32 is not your current directory when
you run the above ren commands, they will fail with the message
"The system cannot find the file specified".

So, a correct procedure would have been like this:

cd /d %windir%\system32
ren msi.dll *.old
ren msiexec.exe *.old
ren msihnd.dll *.old

alternatively (not needing the cd command):

ren %windir%\system32\msi.dll *.old
ren %windir%\system32\msiexec.exe *.old
ren %windir%\system32\msihnd.dll *.old