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Error: "The windows Installer Service is unavailable" when trying to install .NET v3.5+SP1 ?
When I try to install .NET 3.5+SP1 a popup appears telling me:
"The windows Installer Service is unavailable. Another applictaion may be running setup..." No! There is nothing else running. How can I fix the problem? Richard |
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Error: "The windows Installer Service is unavailable" when trying to install .NET v3.5+SP1 ?
Richard Carver wrote:
Why are you yanking the discussion away from the other newsgroups to which you posted? If your discussion was not appropriate for those other newsgroups to continue its discussion by visitors there then you should not have posted there. It is rude to post in a newsgroup and then hide the remainder of the discussion elsewhere. There are rare few occasions where the use of the FollowUp-To header is appropriate. The original Newsgroups list was restored in my reply. When I try to install .NET 3.5+SP1 a popup appears telling me: "The windows Installer Service is unavailable. Another applictaion may be running setup..." No! There is nothing else running. How can I fix the problem? Do you have the Automatic Updates service enabled? If so, did you configure the Windows Update function in Windows to automatically download and install updates? (see note below) If so, you may have received updates from Microsoft that are pending the shutdown of Windows (and then its restart during which the remaining portion of the installation can replace the inuse files that it couldn't touch before). So reboot your computer to see if the problem goes away. That should eliminate any pending installations. Note: It has been noted that some updates are getting pushed onto user's hosts although they have Windows Update configured to notify only. They don't want to have the updates downloaded automatically when they become available. They don't want the state of their host changed whenever Microsoft decides to push an update by having them get installed without first prompting the user to ask for permission. But updates have appeared despite configuring WU to only notify of update or even with WU disabled (which disables the function but does not stop the AU service). Users have reported receiving updates with just the AU service enabled and running which performed an unsolicited reboot of their host. |
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Error: "The windows Installer Service is unavailable" when tryingto install .NET v3.5+SP1 ?
VanguardLH wrote:
Richard Carver wrote: Why are you yanking the discussion away from the other newsgroups to which you posted? If your discussion was not appropriate for those other newsgroups to continue its discussion by visitors there then you should not have posted there. It is rude to post in a newsgroup and then hide the remainder of the discussion elsewhere. There are rare few occasions where the use of the FollowUp-To header is appropriate. The original Newsgroups list was restored in my reply. When I try to install .NET 3.5+SP1 a popup appears telling me: "The windows Installer Service is unavailable. Another applictaion may be running setup..." No! There is nothing else running. How can I fix the problem? I don't know which groups were eliminated by the author, but one was dotnet.general. Since the OP is installing .Net 3.5 + sp 1, it would be appropriate to answer the question here, where I am seeing it. At least it is appropriate to see an answer here by a searcher at a later date. As the response said, rebooting should help. Just because you don't see an active user interface to an install, does not mean one is not occurring. You should look at the task manager, and kill any msiexec.exe processes, then try again. -- Mike |
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