Can't Install Any Programs

[Infoman]

Hi...

I have just noticed that any program I donwload - say, for instance, an
update to an existing program I have - when the downloaded file it
double-clicked to begin setup, nothing happens. Thinking that perhaps
Windows Installer was corrupt, I reinstalled that - but the same problem
still exists.

Anybody have any ideas on this one?

Thanks!

Infoman

 

[gsjutla]

Enable windows installer logging as per http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314852

Check the installer logs to find where the windows installer terminates.
Also use filemon and regmon from http://www.sysinternals.com and check where
the failures occur during the installation process. If you get too many
access failures run through the secedit command mentioned in
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313222

Hope this helps

Regards
Gurpreet Singh

"Infoman" wrote:

> Hi...
>
> I have just noticed that any program I donwload - say, for instance, an
> update to an existing program I have - when the downloaded file it
> double-clicked to begin setup, nothing happens. Thinking that perhaps
> Windows Installer was corrupt, I reinstalled that - but the same problem
> still exists.
>
> Anybody have any ideas on this one?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Infoman

 

[Infoman]

Thanks so much!

I will try all of this and see what happens.

Infoman

"gsjutla" wrote:

> Enable windows installer logging as per http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314852
>
> Check the installer logs to find where the windows installer terminates.
> Also use filemon and regmon from http://www.sysinternals.com and check where
> the failures occur during the installation process. If you get too many
> access failures run through the secedit command mentioned in
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313222
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Regards
> Gurpreet Singh
>
> "Infoman" wrote:
>
> > Hi...
> >
> > I have just noticed that any program I donwload - say, for instance, an
> > update to an existing program I have - when the downloaded file it
> > double-clicked to begin setup, nothing happens. Thinking that perhaps
> > Windows Installer was corrupt, I reinstalled that - but the same problem
> > still exists.
> >
> > Anybody have any ideas on this one?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Infoman

 

[Rico]

On Thu 13 Dec 2007 05:00:00, =?Utf-8?B?SW5mb21hbg==?=
<Infoman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Thanks so much!
>
> I will try all of this and see what happens.
>
> Infoman
>
> "gsjutla" wrote:
>
>> Enable windows installer logging as per
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=314852
>>
>> Check the installer logs to find where the windows installer
>> terminates. Also use filemon and regmon from
>> http://www.sysinternals.com and check where the failures occur
>> during the installation process. If you get too many access
>> failures run through the secedit command mentioned in
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313222
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Regards
>> Gurpreet Singh
>>
>> "Infoman" wrote:
>>
>> > Hi...
>> >
>> > I have just noticed that any program I donwload - say, for
>> > instance, an update to an existing program I have - when the
>> > downloaded file it double-clicked to begin setup, nothing
>> > happens. Thinking that perhaps Windows Installer was corrupt, I
>> > reinstalled that - but the same problem still exists.
>> >
>> > Anybody have any ideas on this one?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Infoman
>


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