Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Fixing windows installer not working

Have you ever come up with some problems while using windows installer for installing components ? Here is an issue which is widely seen, when trying to install some application using msi installer you will be shown with a message "The Windows Installer service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts service." and installation stops. This may be due to the reason, the Windows Installer files that are on your hard disk are damaged or are missing.

Solution
For fixing this issue you may need to register the Windows installer or reinstall windows installer. For registering Windows installer do the below steps,
1. Take Start->Run
2. In the Run window enter msiexec /unregister and press OK
3. Again in the Run window enter msiexec /regserver and press OK

Now try installing with Windows installer everything will work fine!.

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