Depends exactly which key your checking as to what the value is

"john" <john@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7DFAD349-7183-410A-965C-CFE0D5E7870D@microsoft.com...
> 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
> > >
> >
> >
> >