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Mike Kron
Hello,
I've had a problem crop up recently on one of my desktops, and I'm wondering
if anybody has any inisght into this. Whenever I try to install Skype, I get
an error dialogue: "The Windows Installer service could not be accessed." I
would think it might have just been a bad installer, but I just got the same
error message from a new Photo downloading application during it's install
sequence.
I did a quick google of this text, and the general advice seems to be that
Windows can't find the Windows Installer application, msiexec.exe. I looked
in the registry underunder
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/MSIServer, and the
ImagePath value is set to "C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe /V", which is
where msiexec.exe resides. Looked fine. I then tried renaming the
executable and .dll's, and reinstalling the application from the 3.1
redistributable, but no change. I also tried running msiexec /unregister and
/regserver, but no change.
I'm a bit baffled as to what to try next. The application is there, it's
just that nobody can find it. The one thing I'm wondering is if McAffe might
somehow be interfering with Windows Installer? I found a few posts around
the net that suggested some security services can hide it.
I'd greatly appreciate any advice. Thanks very much!
I've had a problem crop up recently on one of my desktops, and I'm wondering
if anybody has any inisght into this. Whenever I try to install Skype, I get
an error dialogue: "The Windows Installer service could not be accessed." I
would think it might have just been a bad installer, but I just got the same
error message from a new Photo downloading application during it's install
sequence.
I did a quick google of this text, and the general advice seems to be that
Windows can't find the Windows Installer application, msiexec.exe. I looked
in the registry underunder
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/MSIServer, and the
ImagePath value is set to "C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe /V", which is
where msiexec.exe resides. Looked fine. I then tried renaming the
executable and .dll's, and reinstalling the application from the 3.1
redistributable, but no change. I also tried running msiexec /unregister and
/regserver, but no change.
I'm a bit baffled as to what to try next. The application is there, it's
just that nobody can find it. The one thing I'm wondering is if McAffe might
somehow be interfering with Windows Installer? I found a few posts around
the net that suggested some security services can hide it.
I'd greatly appreciate any advice. Thanks very much!