windows installer

[minfootball]

well its missing or gone or something
windows xp home, dell e1505

i cannot download acrobat or really any new software/games/anything on my computer.

sometimes it says there is something wrong with windows installer or i might be running in safemode

othertimes it says windows installer cannot load properly

or it says cannot find windows installer

my machine needs a clean whipe but i dont have a backup windows disk (thanks dell) and the program that is "built in" is not on my system

is there some free program i can run to do any of this either wiping it back to windows or fixing the installer

[GoatX12]

You need the MSI installer patch from support.microsoft.com. If that doesn't work you might have to reinstall, I did when i had this same problem however it was on XP x64.

Here is a link to the latest version of the installer hope it helps:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=889482fc-5f56-4a38-b838-de776fd4138c&displaylang=en

[minfootball]

i know this post is old but i still havent fixed the problem (lazyness)

i tried this but it didnt affect my problem

http://img01.picoodle.com/img/img01/5/12/28/f_problemm_9764310.png (http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/5/12/28/f_problemm_9764310.png&srv=img01)

i am not running in safemode
and i hate contacting people

i have a feeling the .exe file might be missing...

[juneau]

I had a similar problem like this a few months back. Something happened to my powerdvd install and when i came to uninstall it, it wouldn't let me, due to a MSI installer error. I got around it by installing over the problem files and then uninstalling.

This seems slightly different though. Will sleep on it.

Edit: Might be useful. :)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315346

[minfootball]

I had a similar problem like this a few months back. Something happened to my powerdvd install and when i came to uninstall it, it wouldn't let me, due to a MSI installer error. I got around it by installing over the problem files and then uninstalling.

This seems slightly different though. Will sleep on it.

Edit: Might be useful. :)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315346

tried this to also didnt work for both methods
file that it told me to look for is completly missing

[Ghost_Rain]

Just but the window's CD in mate and run repair windows and this will fix your problem it happened to me with Vista when I want to play the Crysis demo but I Just did repair window and everything worked fine after this :D

[{CLR}geneSW]

i'll see if I can't find the correct folder that installer is stored in and copy the files over to a host so you can download them, and then you can simply copy it over...

[minfootball]

ha got it fixed
my mom recently got a computer from dell and upon inspection of included cds found a windows restoration disk so problem solved thanks very much for everyones help!