Installer continually retries

[Guest upcomingevent]

I am having the Windows Installer problem where the installer tries

over and over again to install SOMETHING. I have no idea what is being

installed.

 

1) Is there some installer feature to list all products installed and

the success of the process?

 

2) Can I just disable this?

 

3) Any other suggestions? Are there any products which can solve this

annoying problem?

[Guest Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Re: Installer continually retries

 

Click Start, Run and type eventvwr.msc

Select the "Application" log

Look for the recent entries with the source column containing "MsiInstaller"

Double-click the entry for more details.

It may show the product name for which the installation/repair took place

 

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Sample entry

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Event Type: Information

Event Source: MsiInstaller

Event Category: None

Event ID: 11729

Date: 4/13/2007

Time: 11:30:21 AM

Description:

Product: Windows Live Messenger -- Configuration failed.

 

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 7b 35 37 31 37 30 30 46 {571700F

0008: 30 2d 44 42 39 44 2d 34 0-DB9D-4

0010: 42 33 41 2d 42 30 33 44 B3A-B03D

0018: 2d 33 35 41 31 34 42 42 -35A14BB

0020: 35 39 33 39 46 7d 2c 20 5939F},

0028: 31 36 30 32 1602

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In some cases, the application name may not be available, but the ProductCode will be available. You can then map the ProductCode with the actual product name using the steps listed in this article:

 

Windows Installer: Dealing with installation failures:

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/68/1/

 

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Regards,

 

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]

Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

 

 

"upcomingevent" <doggedfrog@aol.com> wrote in message news:1183635556.621308.63920@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

I am having the Windows Installer problem where the installer tries

over and over again to install SOMETHING. I have no idea what is being

installed.

 

1) Is there some installer feature to list all products installed and

the success of the process?

 

2) Can I just disable this?

 

3) Any other suggestions? Are there any products which can solve this

annoying problem?