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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Microsoft Fix it BLOG : Windows Installer</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/fixit4me/archive/tags/Windows+Installer/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Windows Installer</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Fix MSI Patch Registration Corruption</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/fixit4me/archive/2009/05/27/fix-msi-patch-registration-corruption.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3246350</guid><dc:creator>davecal_ms</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/fixit4me/comments/3246350.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/fixit4me/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3246350</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.technet.com/fixit4me/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3246350</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="clip_image002" border="0" alt="clip_image002" src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/fixit4me/WindowsLiveWriter/MicrosoftFixitSolutionforResettingWindow_CA3D/clip_image002_3.gif" width="16" height="16" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971187" target="_blank"&gt;How to fix MSI software update registration corruption issues&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Problem description&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;After you install software updates, repairs or uninstalls for certain products may fail. If you have MSI logging enabled, the following lines are found in the log:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;Couldn't find local patch ''. Looking for it at its source.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;… &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;MainEngineThread is returning 1612&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Solution Information&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This Fix it Solution automates removal of corrupt software update references in the Windows registry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3246350" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/fixit4me/archive/tags/fixit/default.aspx">fixit</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/fixit4me/archive/tags/Windows+Installer/default.aspx">Windows Installer</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/fixit4me/archive/tags/MSI/default.aspx">MSI</category></item></channel></rss>