Windows Installer is driving me to hurt something...

[C]

Started getting the "WI could not be accessed" crap, with the occasional 1601
error (which I understand is the same error). I have done EVERY suggestion I
have found here on the website, plus others from elsewhere, multiple times,
but the damn thing still won't play nice.

Now, it has starting running every time I reboot, although it doesn't seem
to do anything. For a while, it was starting up when I would click-and-drag,
launch other programs, etc.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE -- someone give me something new (hopefully other than
reinstalling my entire computer... I just do not have the time to keep
wasting on this BS.)

Thanks.

 

[Luis]

Try to make an install repair.

Boot from cd, enter in welcome screen, F8 to accept the eula, and select R,
this will replace all system files and will keep your installation,
hopefully this will work, you will need to update the system from 0.

Luis

 

[Malke]

Started getting the "WI could not be accessed" crap, with the occasional
1601
error (which I understand is the same error). I have done EVERY
suggestion I have found here on the website, plus others from elsewhere,
multiple times, but the damn thing still won't play nice.

Now, it has starting running every time I reboot, although it doesn't seem
to do anything. For a while, it was starting up when I would
click-and-drag, launch other programs, etc.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE -- someone give me something new (hopefully other
than reinstalling my entire computer... I just do not have the time to
keep wasting on this BS.)

Thanks.

If you really have tried everything, I don't know what miracle information
you are expecting to receive. This sort of thing doesn't happen all by
itself magically. Either your computer is infected, has been infected by
something that has irreparably damaged the operating system, or you have
hardware issues that is corrupting the drive, etc. Since I don't know
anything about your computer, I can't guess at the root cause and therefore
offer a possible solution.

If you have truly tried all the Windows Installer repairs in the world, then
all I can suggest is that you do hardware troubleshooting to make sure your
machine is healthy and reinstall Windows. If you don't have the time to
work on this, take the machine to a competent local computer professional
and have them do it for you. I don't recommend using a
BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place. Have them also purchase an
external hard drive and Acronis True Image for you and image the newly
installed system and set up incremental backups for you.

Malke