having a major problem with msiexec.exe
Im having a major problem with my windows installer and therefore i cant really do anything with my computer. Somehow my msiexec.exe was deleted its no longer in my system folder...so i therefore cannot install any programs on my computer...i am running windows xp home and have service pack 2 installed...any help as to how i could reinstall the windows installer would be very much appreciated.
thanks
andrew
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andrew
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Posted by:
DethRose
18 years ago
i get an error that says "wrong os or os version for application"
in case i didnt say so in my last post i am running windows xp and have service pack 2 installed.
in case i didnt say so in my last post i am running windows xp and have service pack 2 installed.
Posted by:
bheers
18 years ago
Windows Installer 2.0 Redistributable for Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 supports Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6 or later and Windows 2000. Windows XP contains Windows Installer 2.0 and therefore can't be installed or upgraded by this redistributable.
try installing the sp2 again
Posted by:
bboysza
18 years ago
Download SP2.
Run SP2 setup and allow all the temp files to be extracted.
Don't click on anything in the SP2 setup, just move the Sp2 window out of the way and find the extracted Sp2 files on your C drive (or other "spare" drive) (usually some ext09093224/temp" directory or something else obviously obscure)
Dig through the extracted files and grab,
msiexec.exe
msi.dll
msihnd.dll
msimsg.dll
msiip.dll
Copy those files to your ..\system32 directory
Cancel the SP2 setup (optionally copy extracted Sp2 files elsewhere for future use).
After you do that, now you need to register the service...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324516
Ben
EDIT: I failed to mention that the files will be compressed. You'll have to expand them each from the command prompt, I.E., "c:\expand msiexec.ex_ msiexec.exe
Run SP2 setup and allow all the temp files to be extracted.
Don't click on anything in the SP2 setup, just move the Sp2 window out of the way and find the extracted Sp2 files on your C drive (or other "spare" drive) (usually some ext09093224/temp" directory or something else obviously obscure)
Dig through the extracted files and grab,
msiexec.exe
msi.dll
msihnd.dll
msimsg.dll
msiip.dll
Copy those files to your ..\system32 directory
Cancel the SP2 setup (optionally copy extracted Sp2 files elsewhere for future use).
After you do that, now you need to register the service...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324516
Ben
EDIT: I failed to mention that the files will be compressed. You'll have to expand them each from the command prompt, I.E., "c:\expand msiexec.ex_ msiexec.exe
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