Windows Installer unable to start.

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Receive this message, "could not start Windows Installer service on local
computer". error3: The system cannot find the path specified.
Thanks for any advice.
 
Open Start, Run, type without quotation marks 'regedit' and press OK. Go to key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSIServer and check the REG_EXPAND_SZ 'ImagePath' value. It should point to your Msiexec.exe file (search for it if you don't know where it is or if it has been moved).

For example, if your Msiexec.exe file is placed on C:\WINDOWS directory (this is by default), ImagePath value should contain the following:

C:\WINDOWS\Msiexec.exe /V
 
Ooops!, sorry, the default path of Msiexec.exe file is C:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe /V

It was my fault.
 
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