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    windows installer

    well its missing or gone or something
    windows xp home, dell e1505

    i cannot download acrobat or really any new software/games/anything on my computer.

    sometimes it says there is something wrong with windows installer or i might be running in safemode

    othertimes it says windows installer cannot load properly

    or it says cannot find windows installer

    my machine needs a clean whipe but i dont have a backup windows disk (thanks dell) and the program that is "built in" is not on my system

    is there some free program i can run to do any of this either wiping it back to windows or fixing the installer

    #2
    You need the MSI installer patch from support.microsoft.com. If that doesn't work you might have to reinstall, I did when i had this same problem however it was on XP x64.

    Here is a link to the latest version of the installer hope it helps:
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

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      #3
      i know this post is old but i still havent fixed the problem (lazyness)

      i tried this but it didnt affect my problem



      i am not running in safemode
      and i hate contacting people

      i have a feeling the .exe file might be missing...

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        #4
        I had a similar problem like this a few months back. Something happened to my powerdvd install and when i came to uninstall it, it wouldn't let me, due to a MSI installer error. I got around it by installing over the problem files and then uninstalling.

        This seems slightly different though. Will sleep on it.

        Edit: Might be useful.

        http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315346

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          #5
          Originally posted by juneau
          I had a similar problem like this a few months back. Something happened to my powerdvd install and when i came to uninstall it, it wouldn't let me, due to a MSI installer error. I got around it by installing over the problem files and then uninstalling.

          This seems slightly different though. Will sleep on it.

          Edit: Might be useful.

          http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315346
          tried this to also didnt work for both methods
          file that it told me to look for is completly missing

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            #6
            Just but the window's CD in mate and run repair windows and this will fix your problem it happened to me with Vista when I want to play the Crysis demo but I Just did repair window and everything worked fine after this

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              #7
              i'll see if I can't find the correct folder that installer is stored in and copy the files over to a host so you can download them, and then you can simply copy it over...
              [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/echosofbliss/seiko8wy.gif[/IMG]

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                #8
                ha got it fixed
                my mom recently got a computer from dell and upon inspection of included cds found a windows restoration disk so problem solved thanks very much for everyones help!

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