Windows Installer

[punkygoat.livejournal.com]

Anyone here know how to reinstall Windows Installer on XP? It could help some of my customer with burning problems, as many issues are our burn engine not being able to be installed properly.

The instructions we have are as such:
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1. At the command prompt, type one of the following commands, and then press ENTER, where drive and Windows are the drive and folder where Windows is installed.

If you are running Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 2000, or Microsoft Windows NT, type the following:

attrib -r -s -h drive:\Windows\System32\dllcache

2. At the command prompt, type the following. Press ENTER after you type each line.

ren msi.dll msi.old
ren msiexec.exe msiexec.old
ren msihnd.dll msihnd.old

3. At the command prompt, type exit, and then press ENTER.

4. Restart your computer.

5. Update the Windows Installer files to the latest version. To do so, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites, and then download and install Windows Installer 2.0.

Note Windows Installer 2.0 is included with Microsoft Windows XP. You do not have to perform this step if you are using Windows XP.


· For Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Microsoft Windows 2000:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=32832&NewList=1

6. After the installation of the Windows Installer is complete, shut down and restart your computer
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Now, I tried this on my machine and the first problem that came up with that those three files I need to rename are not in system32/dllcache, but only /system32/. So I renamed the files in that directory and restarted. Upon restart, I went to system32 and found the old and new versions of those files, so they must reinstate on restart. But I also found the new versions in system32/dllcache.
Then I went to another machine that this fix had not been done on and found the first file, msi.dll, in the dllcache, along with all three system32.

Can anyone shed a bit more light on this? Seems like renaming the files in system32 and rebooting should work, but just want to double check.

Comments

Um, dood?

[grayhawkfh.livejournal.com]

As a voice of reason (and that statement is sure to send fragbert, voiceofthelost and danicia into helpless paroxyms of laughter...), may i encourage you to do the following things:

1: Read the Info page for this community. Note that it says that this is a place for techs to complain about end users. tech_support is the place to ask for assistance. Even if you are a long time reader & poster here. People who are far crankier than I tend to, well, flame the living bejeezus out of people.

2: Apologize quickly and take your question to the proper forum quickly.

3: Ignore, as much as possible, the LARTS and Flamethrowers being aimed in your direction. Responding encourages higher levels of sarcasm and abuse.

4: Learn from the mistakes of others.

Or, you can do none of the above, blissfully ignore me, and suffer the consequences.

Just doing my part to be helpful...

Re: Um, dood?

[grayhawkfh.livejournal.com]

Please, let none misunderstand me.

In the not-too-distant past, there have been a couple of incidents where someone has posted a request for technical assistance here, and the person in question has been, well, bar-b-qued.

As in "Well Done".

And much of it, unnecessary, IMHO.

punkygoat, if my post above in any way offended, then I offer my sincerest apologies to you. This was not my intent. I simply wanted to avoid any further flaming, and spare you potential grief.

Re: Um, dood?

[punkygoat.livejournal.com]

No worries. I just can't believe it's getting so much attention. I've asked questions here before and gotten some answers and no shit at all. And this time it's actually 100% work related. ((shrug))

But you were civil, so there's no problem.

And reguardless, I did this (http://www.livejournal.com/community/techsupport/239541.html), so I should be given slack. Man, that was a great night.