Windows Installer

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When I right click on a drive to check the properties, the Windows Installer
box pops up briefly and msiexec.exe appears in Task Manager. Sometimes it
takes as long as 30 seconds for the Properties Box to appear. Is there
anyway to prevent this.

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

When I right click on a drive to check the properties, the Windows Installer
box pops up briefly and msiexec.exe appears in Task Manager. Sometimes it
takes as long as 30 seconds for the Properties Box to appear. Is there
anyway to prevent this.

Hi

See "Every time I launch my application, Windows Installer performs an
installation. How can I determine the cause of the on-demand installation?" in
the FAQ at

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/community/centers/management/msi_faq.mspx

To access the Application Log in the Event viewer,
run the following command from Start/Run:

eventvwr.msc

 

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Hi

See "Every time I launch my application, Windows Installer performs an
installation. How can I determine the cause of the on-demand installation?" in
the FAQ at

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/community/centers/management/msi_faq.mspx

To access the Application Log in the Event viewer,
run the following command from Start/Run:

eventvwr.msc


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torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
Scripting Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter

torgeir thanks for the reply.

These are the logs I found:

Detection of product '{8851E12C-0EF9-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0}', feature
'ENU_DCD', component '{73D222B6-1F6B-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0}' failed. The
resource 'C:\Program Files\Adaptec\Easy CD Creator 5\DirectCD\Directcd.exe'
does not exist.

Detection of product '{8851E12C-0EF9-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0}', feature
'ENU_DCD' failed during request for component
'{0AF9B2CE-3610-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0}'

I removed DirectCD from my computer. How do I stop Windows Installer from
starting?

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

torgeir thanks for the reply.

These are the logs I found:

Detection of product '{8851E12C-0EF9-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0}', feature
'ENU_DCD', component '{73D222B6-1F6B-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0}' failed. The
resource 'C:\Program Files\Adaptec\Easy CD Creator 5\DirectCD\Directcd.exe'
does not exist.

Detection of product '{8851E12C-0EF9-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0}', feature
'ENU_DCD' failed during request for component
'{0AF9B2CE-3610-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0}'

I removed DirectCD from my computer. How do I stop Windows Installer from
starting?

Hi

MSIZAP.EXE is maybe able to cleanup this mess, it is included as a utility in the
support tools installation package (on your WinXP CD) with some additional
documentation included in suptools.chm (installed by suptools.msi)

Based on the documentation in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msi/setup/msizap_exe.asp

this is what you should run:
msizap T {8851E12C-0EF9-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0}

If that doesn't help, I would have done a registry search for
{8851E12C-0EF9-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0}, {73D222B6-1F6B-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0},
{0AF9B2CE-3610-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0} and deleted all hits.

 

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Hi

MSIZAP.EXE is maybe able to cleanup this mess, it is included as a utility in the
support tools installation package (on your WinXP CD) with some additional
documentation included in suptools.chm (installed by suptools.msi)

Based on the documentation in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msi/setup/msizap_exe.asp

this is what you should run:
msizap T {8851E12C-0EF9-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0}

If that doesn't help, I would have done a registry search for
{8851E12C-0EF9-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0}, {73D222B6-1F6B-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0},
{0AF9B2CE-3610-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0} and deleted all hits.



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torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page Scripting
Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter

Thanks torgeir-

I used Norton WinDoctor and that seemed to fix the problem.