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A littel help, please . . .
Upon boot-up the message, "Error - Program version is wrong. Please install again." This in my win
XP desktop. A casual search seems to say, somehow, that Windows Installer is missing. The suggestion: StartRun register with "msiexec/unregister" and reregister with "msiexec/regserver". Each/either leads to the message: "Windows cannot find msiexec/******. This began happening following attempted upgrade to 2010 DVD of mapping software. Suggestions ?? Bob Swinney |
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A littel help, please . . .
Robert Swinney wrote: Upon boot-up the message, "Error - Program version is wrong. Please install again." This in my win XP desktop. A casual search seems to say, somehow, that Windows Installer is missing. The suggestion: StartRun register with "msiexec/unregister" and reregister with "msiexec/regserver". Each/either leads to the message: "Windows cannot find msiexec/******. This began happening following attempted upgrade to 2010 DVD of mapping software. Suggestions ?? Bob Swinney Restore from backups. |
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A littel help, please . . .
On Mar 22, 1:46*pm, "Robert Swinney" wrote:
Upon boot-up the message, "Error - Program version is wrong. *Please install again." *This in my win XP desktop. *A casual search seems to say, somehow, that Windows Installer is missing. *The suggestion: StartRun register with "msiexec/unregister" and reregister with "msiexec/regserver". Each/either leads to the message: *"Windows cannot find msiexec/******. *This began happening following attempted upgrade to 2010 DVD of mapping software. *Suggestions ?? Bob Swinney I'm assuming you can't boot at all, true, not true? A couple of things you can try before scraping off and rebuilding. Hit F8 at bootup to get into the boot options menu. See if it'll come up in Safe Mode. If it does, you can maybe find out what's attempting to run that screws up the boot. There's some stuff online at MS's site about troubleshooting boot problems, waaaay too long to repost here. Alternative, if the above doesn't work, roll back to a previous good boot, F8 again and pick that choice. Means that any system changes you've made since that time are GONE. One reason I run ERUNT regularly to back up the registry. XP can run a repair install, you'll have to boot up with a CD/DVD of XP. Take the Install path and it'll scan your boot drive for valid installations. Hit "R" to repair. You can install a new version of XP onto the same drive, I always do this for maintenance purposes anyway. Then you can play games with the registry hives and/or boot files from the new install. I use Registry Workshop to mess with things like what programs run at startup and the like. It can load hives from other installs and can do compares between different sets. Very handy in the right circumstances. Or you can just say screw it and reinstall after formatting. Hopefully you have backups. Most folks would do that, "I've got nothing on there I need to save", then find out that their phone contacts and email lists are gone, along with all emails. Not to mention music, videos and pics. I do image backups to another drive for just such occasions. If the current one craps out, I can slap in the backup, bootup, recover what new files there were and then maybe recover the dud drive. If what you have is a transient message and your machine boots fine otherwise, please disregard all the above and check what you've got in the Startup folder or in the registry for Startup programs. One of them is giving out that message, you get to find out which one it is. Again, there's a good writeup on the MS site for these problems. Still no substitute for backups... Stan |
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Stan sez:
"I'm assuming you can't boot at all, true, not true?" Naw! It boots fine. The only evidence is the message quoted in my OP. Everything seems to work as per normal. I began getting the message after first boot following (apparently) good load of new DVD mapping software. I began to reboot when I discovered the program would not work. Bob Swinney wrote in message ... On Mar 22, 1:46 pm, "Robert Swinney" wrote: Upon boot-up the message, "Error - Program version is wrong. Please install again." This in my win XP desktop. A casual search seems to say, somehow, that Windows Installer is missing. The suggestion: StartRun register with "msiexec/unregister" and reregister with "msiexec/regserver". Each/either leads to the message: "Windows cannot find msiexec/******. This began happening following attempted upgrade to 2010 DVD of mapping software. Suggestions ?? Bob Swinney A couple of things you can try before scraping off and rebuilding. Hit F8 at bootup to get into the boot options menu. See if it'll come up in Safe Mode. If it does, you can maybe find out what's attempting to run that screws up the boot. There's some stuff online at MS's site about troubleshooting boot problems, waaaay too long to repost here. Alternative, if the above doesn't work, roll back to a previous good boot, F8 again and pick that choice. Means that any system changes you've made since that time are GONE. One reason I run ERUNT regularly to back up the registry. XP can run a repair install, you'll have to boot up with a CD/DVD of XP. Take the Install path and it'll scan your boot drive for valid installations. Hit "R" to repair. You can install a new version of XP onto the same drive, I always do this for maintenance purposes anyway. Then you can play games with the registry hives and/or boot files from the new install. I use Registry Workshop to mess with things like what programs run at startup and the like. It can load hives from other installs and can do compares between different sets. Very handy in the right circumstances. Or you can just say screw it and reinstall after formatting. Hopefully you have backups. Most folks would do that, "I've got nothing on there I need to save", then find out that their phone contacts and email lists are gone, along with all emails. Not to mention music, videos and pics. I do image backups to another drive for just such occasions. If the current one craps out, I can slap in the backup, bootup, recover what new files there were and then maybe recover the dud drive. If what you have is a transient message and your machine boots fine otherwise, please disregard all the above and check what you've got in the Startup folder or in the registry for Startup programs. One of them is giving out that message, you get to find out which one it is. Again, there's a good writeup on the MS site for these problems. Still no substitute for backups... Stan |
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A littel help, please . . .
"Pete C." wrote:
Robert Swinney wrote: Upon boot-up the message, "Error - Program version is wrong. Please install again." This in my win XP desktop. A casual search seems to say, somehow, that Windows Installer is missing. The suggestion: StartRun register with "msiexec/unregister" and reregister with "msiexec/regserver". Each/either leads to the message: "Windows cannot find msiexec/******. This began happening following attempted upgrade to 2010 DVD of mapping software. Suggestions ?? Bob Swinney Restore from backups. Doesn't XP have the facility to roll back the system at various points? I'm still using W2K pro and seldom use my XP pro laptop enough to get to know XP. Wes |
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then it is most likely the case that the DVD mapping software is
incompatible with your version of Windows - uninstall it "Robert Swinney" wrote in message ... Stan sez: "I'm assuming you can't boot at all, true, not true?" Naw! It boots fine. The only evidence is the message quoted in my OP. Everything seems to work as per normal. I began getting the message after first boot following (apparently) good load of new DVD mapping software. I began to reboot when I discovered the program would not work. Bob Swinney |
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A littel help, please . . .
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:46:18 -0500, "Robert Swinney"
wrote: Upon boot-up the message, "Error - Program version is wrong. Please install again." This in my win XP desktop. A casual search seems to say, somehow, that Windows Installer is missing. The suggestion: StartRun register with "msiexec/unregister" and reregister with "msiexec/regserver". Each/either leads to the message: "Windows cannot find msiexec/******. This began happening following attempted upgrade to 2010 DVD of mapping software. Suggestions ?? Bob Swinney Go to start, programs, accessories, system tools, system restore. Pick a date before your attempted upgrade. |
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A littel help, please . . .
Many thanx to all who responded. I have been distracted from working on the problem today. I will
get back to it very soon. Any further suggestions, comments, appreciated. Bob Swinney "Don Foreman" wrote in message ... On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:46:18 -0500, "Robert Swinney" wrote: Upon boot-up the message, "Error - Program version is wrong. Please install again." This in my win XP desktop. A casual search seems to say, somehow, that Windows Installer is missing. The suggestion: StartRun register with "msiexec/unregister" and reregister with "msiexec/regserver". Each/either leads to the message: "Windows cannot find msiexec/******. This began happening following attempted upgrade to 2010 DVD of mapping software. Suggestions ?? Bob Swinney Go to start, programs, accessories, system tools, system restore. Pick a date before your attempted upgrade. |
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A littel help, please . . .
Wes wrote in
: Doesn't XP have the facility to roll back the system at various points? I'm still using W2K pro and seldom use my XP pro laptop enough to get to know XP. XP takes "checkpoints" periodically *unless* you/sombody has the capability turned off. These checkpoints don't include the data files but just the system files. XP *does* have a rudimentary backup capability that's mostly a disc copy as opposed to a true backup/restore although the "NT Backup" can be downloaded from MS for free and provides the same functionality as you have in W2K. Hope this helps. |
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Thanx, RAM. This is good advice - same as I heard from Don Foeman. which is an unimpeachable source
of good information. Yes, I have System Restore. I will try it as next diagnostic step. Bob Swinney "RAM³" wrote in message . 10... Wes wrote in : Doesn't XP have the facility to roll back the system at various points? I'm still using W2K pro and seldom use my XP pro laptop enough to get to know XP. XP takes "checkpoints" periodically *unless* you/sombody has the capability turned off. These checkpoints don't include the data files but just the system files. XP *does* have a rudimentary backup capability that's mostly a disc copy as opposed to a true backup/restore although the "NT Backup" can be downloaded from MS for free and provides the same functionality as you have in W2K. Hope this helps. |
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