Windows Installer Unavailable for Spyware Beta Installation

[M. Aussenberg]

When I tried to install the Spyware Beta program,
installshield opened, and the process barely got started
when a pop up warned me that "the Windows Installer Service
could not be accessed." I've installed several other
programs on this computer recently without a similar
problem. I tried to "repair" the installer (using Explorer
to access the .msi file), but it wouldn't allow me to do
that either. P.S. I would have searched for an answer to
this question, but the search utility is apparently down.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

You can reinstall the Windows Installer via this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...fc-5f56-4a38-b838-de776fd4138c&displaylang=en

If you want to try something simpler first, go to a command prompt and type
net start "windows installer

and hit enter

See what happens.

 

[Guest]

I am having the same issue and tried to re-install the
Microsoft installer, I have downloaded and ran it several
times, it says that it has installed sucessfully, but
when I go to install MSAS I get the same error! I cannot
access the Installer via the command line either...

 

[Bill Sanderson]

When you say "cannot access installer from the command line"--do you mean
that "net start "windows installer <enter>" fails? What error message do
you see?

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