Well I have to manually start it because it won't start by itself manually.
But the installer still doesn't work? I have the msiexec.exe in the system
32 folder and dllcache but in the registry it has a /V at the end of the file
location.

John

"DL" wrote:

> Are you saying that in Services the windows installer service had started?
>
> "john" <john@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:27876CE1-4266-47CD-89F5-813A6AF0463B@microsoft.com...
> > 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
> >
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