Guest C Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 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 Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 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 Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 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 -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ
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