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Friday, January 18, 2008 12:09 PM

Request for suggestions for updating the 1603 KB article?

Feedback on our existing Knowledge Base article for the error 1603 is that 'it is not very useful.' My first thought to update the KB would be to go over the troubleshooting techniques such as verbose logging and then how to find and read the errors in
Posted by Windows Installer Team | 6 Comments
Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:22 PM

Tips to find Windows Installer specific product support

Customers have mentioned having trouble finding Windows Installer support when they try to navigate the maze of Microsoft support offerings. If you too need to find Windows Installer specific product support, the support staff dedicated to Windows Installer
Posted by Windows Installer Team | 2 Comments
Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:13 AM

Windows Installer Appears Every Time a Program is Started

Question OS: Windows XP Home SP2 with Automatic updates every day at 3AM; Machine: Toshiba Satellite M35X-S311; 80% of hard drive free. My trial version of Office 2003 expired 1/31/06 (no warning messages received prior). I couldn't access Control Panel
Posted by Windows Installer Team | 12 Comments
Tuesday, November 01, 2005 7:00 AM

"Stop Installation Idiocy" PCWorld's Hassle Free PC article

While searching for news with "Windows Installer" in the subject, I recently came across the Hassle Free PC article Hassle-Free PC: Fix Stubborn Windows Install Errors where a reader asked for assistance with the Windows Installer dialogs under the subheading
Posted by Windows Installer Team | 11 Comments
Friday, October 07, 2005 4:18 PM

Most frequent problem with the msi-fusion interaction? Incorrect authoring of strong name.

Question Most frequent problem with the msi-fusion interaction? Answer Incorrect authoring of strong name. This particularly crops up at uninstall time as the MSIAssemblyName table ends up feeding the wrong identity to the Fusion API. This doesn't break
Posted by Windows Installer Team | 2 Comments
 
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