Are you saying that in Services the windows installer service had started?

"john" <john@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have tried several fixes but I can't get any software to install that
uses
> windows installer, it just closes up. Now I get this error when I try to
> start the installer: Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start
or
> control request in a timely fashion.
>
> Not even sure if that will help installing my programs because it was
> running and I still couldn;t install programs.
>
> I need help fast becasue I just had to replace my hard drive so now I'm in
> the process of installing programs that weren't backed up and I have 4
> partitions to do.
>
> Thanks
>