The Case of the Installer Service Error

re: The Case of the Installer Service Error

Stan Mcdowell — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:42:37 GMT

appreciable write up, I wonder why don't Microsoft hold OEM's to a elevated standard?

re: The Case of the Installer Service Error

StuartMW — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:16:06 GMT

Although not an IT professional I consider myself a PC expert and often use Process Monitor and Process Explorer to find useful information and/or debug. For example many applications cannot be fully configured via their UI but one can check what registry keys etc are checked for configuration information. As per this article I look for NOT FOUND references in the log and see if the named key(s) look "interesting". Just yesterday I was able to customize SNMP community names for a program that provided no way to set them and had no documentation (even on the vendors website).

re: The Case of the Installer Service Error

Fleet Command — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:18:08 GMT

Same thing happened to me once. Only I took a slightly different approach: I went about to confirm the assertions of the error message. So, I checked with SC.EXE and it told me that there was no Windows Installer service registered. So, I imported the correct service registration data.

Process Monitor is an excellent tool, but one who uses it must know exactly what he is looking for.

(Strange though, I could swear I posted this comment here before.)

re: The Case of the Installer Service Error

Sukhdeep Singh — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:10:16 GMT

Procmon is a life saver...Thanks Mark!