Guest lam Posted October 12, 2008 Posted October 12, 2008 Hi all, My computer showed "Windows Installer Service could not be accessed ...." when I tried to install a new printer software to the PC. I tried methods 1 and 2 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315346 without success. Method 1: Reregister the Windows Installer Method 2: Reinstall the Windows Installer - Needed to renamed msiexec.exe to msiexec.old, msihnd.dll to msihnd.old and msi.dll to msi.old before new WI installation. The problem after reinstalling the WI version 3.1 v2 is that the WI can't start. When I tried the services.msc and tried to manually start WI, it can't find the file msiexec.exe. Somehow the renamed files were not re-created after the new WI installation. I tried to rename the *.old files back to the original file extension. The WI started but I got the same "Windows Installer could not be accessed ...." error message when I tried to install the printer software. Please help and thanks in advance -- lam
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted October 12, 2008 Posted October 12, 2008 Re: Windows Installer problem on Windows XP SP1 Why are you still running WinXP SP1 four years after the release of SP2 and 5 months after the release of SP3? lam wrote: > Hi all, > My computer showed "Windows Installer Service could not be accessed ...." > when I tried to install a new printer software to the PC. I tried methods > 1 > and 2 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315346 without success. > > Method 1: Reregister the Windows Installer > Method 2: Reinstall the Windows Installer - Needed to renamed msiexec.exe > to > msiexec.old, msihnd.dll to msihnd.old and msi.dll to msi.old before new WI > installation. > > The problem after reinstalling the WI version 3.1 v2 is that the WI can't > start. When I tried the services.msc and tried to manually start WI, it > can't find the file msiexec.exe. Somehow the renamed files were not > re-created after the new WI installation. I tried to rename the *.old > files > back to the original file extension. The WI started but I got the same > "Windows Installer could not be accessed ...." error message when I tried > to install the printer software. > > Please help and thanks in advance
Guest Andrew Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 RE: Windows Installer problem on Windows XP SP1 Try to rename thme again and then run this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=889482FC-5F56-4A38-B838-DE776FD4138C&displaylang=en&displaylang=en then, if that still doesn't work, upgrade to SP3 "lam" wrote: > Hi all, > My computer showed "Windows Installer Service could not be accessed ...." > when I tried to install a new printer software to the PC. I tried methods 1 > and 2 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315346 without success. > > Method 1: Reregister the Windows Installer > Method 2: Reinstall the Windows Installer - Needed to renamed msiexec.exe to > msiexec.old, msihnd.dll to msihnd.old and msi.dll to msi.old before new WI > installation. > > The problem after reinstalling the WI version 3.1 v2 is that the WI can't > start. When I tried the services.msc and tried to manually start WI, it can't > find the file msiexec.exe. Somehow the renamed files were not re-created > after the new WI installation. I tried to rename the *.old files back to the > original file extension. The WI started but I got the same "Windows Installer > could not be accessed ...." error message when I tried to install the > printer software. > > Please help and thanks in advance > -- > lam
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