Windows Installer - can't install ANY msi package

SIW2 said:

Good find espressoman,

This is what worked for some of the guys on that thread - anyone here got the problem and want to try it ?



Windows Installer Crash : Windows 7 Miscellaneous : Windows 7 Beta : Microsoft TechNet Forums

Please post back the results.

SIW2

Worked for me as well. I reformatted last Saturday to resolve this problem. Popped back up yesterday. But now it's fixed. What was really cool is that Microsoft sent me the tip via the Software Reporting feature. That was really cool.

Could this be made a sticky after 4000 posts now in 3 days?

Now mine works again, thank god i found this tread i was minutes from re-installing windows 7

- Sergio

Never even knew I had a problem until reading these posts then checking and turned out mine had stoped working to but all fixed now.

office freezes for me around 75% complete not sure whats going on i did have office 10 installed tryed a uninstaller to get rid of all the reg files and prog files no luck

I looked for that reg file everyone is talking about it was empty

start regedit
navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisabledSessions
rename MachineThrottling to _MachineThrottling

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Hey guys I'm new to all this and don't know much about computers so forgive me if I ask any stupid questions. When I try to edit 'disabled sessions' there is no name 'machine throttling' it just says "value name: (default)" which I can't edit and then "value data: " which is empty. Does anyone know what I can do?

wildy84 said:

start regedit
navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisabledSessions
rename MachineThrottling to _MachineThrottling

Hey guys I'm new to all this and don't know much about computers so forgive me if I ask any stupid questions. When I try to edit 'disabled sessions' there is no name 'machine throttling' it just says "value name: (default)" which I can't edit and then "value data: " which is empty. Does anyone know what I can do?

This ^^

btw my problem is that i cant install Office 2007 trial. i can download it, but when i click to intall it stops (at the same place) everytime saying there has been an error, doesnt give me anymore info

to wildy84
no help, but I have the same problem. May be our windows7 (I have proff) is newer so they fixed this bug allready. However, my software worked fine in Vista but i´m not able to install it under W7. The install whizard does not continue and in taskmanager, MSIexec.exe ( Windows ® Installer. V 5.0.7600.16385) is using more and more memory (up to 1.600.000 k) this takes about 15 minutes. Then a screen appears which says that the installation was aborted by a another process and I have to do the installation again (try to install naturally speaking).
Tried all compatibility mode and removed the software and cleaned the registry


any idea any help?

ludwisch

Hey fellas,

Well after completing basically every step and fix you guys have listed here I still had no joy on resolving my problem. So I did some poking around on the internet and in Windows 7 and I finally resolved my MSI install issues. Actually it wasn't just related to MSI it was other installations as well like MSN Messenger ect..

So what was causing my installs from getting the 2203 error and failing?
- My temp director folder!!!

In windows 7 my TMP and TEMP directories are set by default to:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp

Not sure but some programs had issues using this temp directory maybe due to it's location or rights I'm honestly not sure. But what I did to resolve this was change the locaton of my Temp Directory. Then I changed the two Values TMP and TEMP to point to the new location C:\Temp.

Now I can install any program including MSI's. Finally this has been an issue for over a month and has been driving me crazy. Anyway here is the step by step instructions if you choose to try it. (Im using Windows 7 btw so this might be different)

1- Create folder C:\Temp
2- Navigate to Control Panel/User Accounts/Change My Environment Variables
3- Change the value of both TMP and TEMP to C:\Temp (Default is %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp)

That's it you don't even need to reboot. Hopefully this fixes your problem!

Best of luck,
Grimmy

Always save your installers to Downloads folder. That's what it is for.

Then you have them handy for reinstalls and don't have to mess with temporary directories.

Blaming every issue like this on CCleaner is getting tiresome. It is the state-of-the-art cleaner. Have put it on over a hundred machines with thousands of uses and never had a single issue with it. Rest.

Same with the Auslogics Defraggers - fast, free, flawless, best-in-class.