“.this may not fix every Windows installer 'could not be accessed' problem, but it's a simple trick that can clear many confused situations.” One approach to clearing the confusion is to, for lack of a better term, 'whack it upside the head' by turning it off completely. Disable the Windows installer service Right-click on Computer or My Computer, click Manage, expand Services and applications, then click Services. In the list that appears to the right, scroll down until you see Windows Installer. Right-click on that and then click on Properties. The Startup type listed will be either manual or automatic. Change it to Disabled and click OK. Reboot your computer.

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Re-enable the Windows installer service Repeat the steps above, but this time, change Startup type from Disabled to Manual. You do not need to reboot your computer here.

Now, try installing something and see what happens. The theory is that forcing Windows to restart with the Windows installer service disabled causes some of the confusion about its state to be reset.

And once reset, Windows installer can be used again. As I said, this may not fix every Windows installer 'could not be accessed' problem, but it's a simple trick that can clear many confused situations.

Article - August 27, 2011. Alex September 5, 2011 8:59 AM 'I can,t believe that some people are still using Vista!

Dump it and move on~ download Ubuntu 11 for free and see your computer come alive.' Sure, if you can understand it and have a PhD. In computer skills. Html Email Form more. I like what Ubuntu has done, but I don't think it's ready for Grandma yet, the test of a real desktop system. My last trial of it, I had to open the command line too often to install what I wanted, and the boot loader somehow h0sed my system, and I had to format the whole hard drive, in the process h0sing my recovery partition. Had I not made a recovery DVD. My machine came pre-installed with Vista, and I love it!

I haven't had ANY of the problems described by people who tried to install it over XP (or ME???); the machine just runs, is reliable, and I only paid about $300 US new! (2.2 Ghz dual core Athlon 64X2, 2 Gb DDR2, 320 Gb SATA, Windows Vista Home Premium.) I have been amazed since I got it, and like it at least as well as my wife's laptop with Win 7. When new computers start shipping with Ubuntu and an emulator (so I can play my few Windows games I enjoy), I will think about it. For now, I'll 'dance with the one that brung me'.