Windows Installer troubles

[CBNelson]

I have searched the topics and can not find one that addresses the issue I
have with Windows Installer. If you run msiexec.exe without any command line
options and the file you want to install you should get a help window that
displays the command line options and how to use them. So far so good, that
part seems to work for me. Now when I run "msiexec.exe /i and C:filename.msi
/Lime logfile.log" I expect 'filename.mis' to install and a logfile be
created. Instead I get the same help window that explains the command line
opptions and how to use them. This also happens if I try to execute
'filename.msi'.
I am running Windows XP Pro X64.
I would like to install the window defender and it is a .msi file and will
not install. I would also like to install the Intro to VB 2008 Express.msi
too ...

Any help is greatly appreciated.

tia

 

[Andrew E.]

Go to run,type:msiexec /unregister Then return to run,type:msiexec
/regserver

 

[CBNelson]

Thank you Andrew for your response.
I've tried that a dozen times. I have even changed the registry settings to
point to "Windows\SysWOW64\msiexec.exe" instead of
"Windows\system32\msiexec.exe". I've even renamed msi.dll, msiexec.exe and
msihnd.dll to force windows installer to reinstall itself. Nothing I have
done is helping.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

How to resolve Common Windows Installer Problems:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555175/en-us

Run the command:
%TEMP%
You may have some corrupt files in there stopping the installer from seeing
your *.MSI
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[CBNelson]

Thanks for your response Mark.

I tried everything in that article and nothing there seems to help my
problem. I went through the event logs and found some windows installer
entries that completed successfully. So it appears the problem may be with
the msi files. I made sure the Windows Defender download was for the x64
version of XP Pro and that will not install. Unless some has somthing new to
suggest I guess this is just unresolvable.
Thanks again for the responses.