i was wondering if any of you ran into this problem before. I have windows xp pro, and i cannot install anything that uses the MSI installer , as opposed to say install shield or something of that nature. Plus being xp, i cant re-downloaded the MSI because they claim its built into xp and therefore i cant reinstall it or anything. I cant install any ms powertoys, any SDKs, certain games (bf1942) or anything that uses the MSI installer.
Anybody heard anything about this or run into it ?
Hmm, i have never had this problem but there are different versions of the MSI you can download aside from MS, as they have **** for brains.
Try:
www.download.com
www.wincustomize.com (dunno bout this one)
or search on www.google.com
those both send you to ms naturally
nope, never heard of any trouble like this before. Maybe the anti m/s people have poisoned your pc. Never know!
Such is life.
Ok, try this....
Open the command prompt....
Go to the folder holding the MSI file..... "CD msi_dir" (msi_dir being the directory)
Now type this (assuming that system32 is in the normal windows dir on C drive) ....."c:\windows\system32\msiexec.exe /i msi_filename" (msi_filename is the name of the .msi file)
Does that start the install?
