Windows Installer is driving me to hurt something...

[Guest C]

Started getting the "WI could not be accessed" crap, with the occasional 1601

error (which I understand is the same error). I have done EVERY suggestion I

have found here on the website, plus others from elsewhere, multiple times,

but the damn thing still won't play nice.

 

Now, it has starting running every time I reboot, although it doesn't seem

to do anything. For a while, it was starting up when I would click-and-drag,

launch other programs, etc.

 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE -- someone give me something new (hopefully other than

reinstalling my entire computer... I just do not have the time to keep

wasting on this BS.)

 

Thanks.

[Guest Luis]

Re: Windows Installer is driving me to hurt something...

 

Try to make an install repair.

 

Boot from cd, enter in welcome screen, F8 to accept the eula, and select R,

this will replace all system files and will keep your installation,

hopefully this will work, you will need to update the system from 0.

 

Luis

"C" <C@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:0B482845-1C26-4EE1-A39A-EE28F8D6AFBB@microsoft.com...

> Started getting the "WI could not be accessed" crap, with the occasional

> 1601

> error (which I understand is the same error). I have done EVERY

> suggestion I

> have found here on the website, plus others from elsewhere, multiple

> times,

> but the damn thing still won't play nice.

>

> Now, it has starting running every time I reboot, although it doesn't seem

> to do anything. For a while, it was starting up when I would

> click-and-drag,

> launch other programs, etc.

>

> PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE -- someone give me something new (hopefully other

> than

> reinstalling my entire computer... I just do not have the time to keep

> wasting on this BS.)

>

> Thanks.

[Guest Malke]

Re: Windows Installer is driving me to hurt something...

 

C wrote:

> Started getting the "WI could not be accessed" crap, with the occasional

> 1601

> error (which I understand is the same error). I have done EVERY

> suggestion I have found here on the website, plus others from elsewhere,

> multiple times, but the damn thing still won't play nice.

>

> Now, it has starting running every time I reboot, although it doesn't seem

> to do anything. For a while, it was starting up when I would

> click-and-drag, launch other programs, etc.

>

> PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE -- someone give me something new (hopefully other

> than reinstalling my entire computer... I just do not have the time to

> keep wasting on this BS.)

>

> Thanks.

 

If you really have tried everything, I don't know what miracle information

you are expecting to receive. This sort of thing doesn't happen all by

itself magically. Either your computer is infected, has been infected by

something that has irreparably damaged the operating system, or you have

hardware issues that is corrupting the drive, etc. Since I don't know

anything about your computer, I can't guess at the root cause and therefore

offer a possible solution.

 

If you have truly tried all the Windows Installer repairs in the world, then

all I can suggest is that you do hardware troubleshooting to make sure your

machine is healthy and reinstall Windows. If you don't have the time to

work on this, take the machine to a competent local computer professional

and have them do it for you. I don't recommend using a

BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place. Have them also purchase an

external hard drive and Acronis True Image for you and image the newly

installed system and set up incremental backups for you.

 

Malke

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