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EdCro
Help! My Windows Installer Service is not working. Trying
to install a program that requires this installer just
yields an error dialog that says, "The Windows Installer
Service could not be accessed...".
Caught in a Catch-22, I can't install new programs onto
my PC (not even Norton Utilities, which I purchased to
help cure this increasing ailing OS).
Ominously, numerous searches (e.g., the Internet,
Microsoft Knowledge Base, etc.) have identified similar
problems but not the same. Coincidentally, a reinstall of
Windows XP Home fails because my 'Boot.ini' is missing.
It's odd that my system otherwise works very well
(including the boot process).
And yes I have tried the unregister/reregister trick but
to no avail! EdC in Raleigh
to install a program that requires this installer just
yields an error dialog that says, "The Windows Installer
Service could not be accessed...".
Caught in a Catch-22, I can't install new programs onto
my PC (not even Norton Utilities, which I purchased to
help cure this increasing ailing OS).
Ominously, numerous searches (e.g., the Internet,
Microsoft Knowledge Base, etc.) have identified similar
problems but not the same. Coincidentally, a reinstall of
Windows XP Home fails because my 'Boot.ini' is missing.
It's odd that my system otherwise works very well
(including the boot process).
And yes I have tried the unregister/reregister trick but
to no avail! EdC in Raleigh