re: A better fix for this isscript.msi problem
Friday, March 22, 2002 at 9:12 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gizzmo
(2 messages posted)
Thanks for the tip. I never even bothered to check the error logs, since the error
in question is a "silent" error and causes no other problems other than the entry
in the log file, which is only slightly better than worthless. At any rate, I (apparently
erroneously) assumed that the key in question was there for a reason and didn't want
to delete or suggest that anyone else delete a signifigant amount of registry data.
I'm assuming (haven't tested your fix yet) that removing the key will get rid of
the three Windows Installer windows that flash by when I install *.msi and Installshield-based
programs. I'm still rather amazed that M$ doesn't have a fix for this yet. But then,
they just got around to fixing the stupid "system has recovered from a serious error"
message at every boot that many of my customers are experiencing. Anyway, thanks
for the heads up; I'll give it a shot.
On Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 3:52 pm, z567eight wrote:
>Gizzmo, if you notice under the logs for XP, this output a ton of error messages
>when you install anything under XP.
>
>For everyone out there, I've found a better way to get rid of this stupid isscript.msi
>problem because installing this file doesn't help and Gizzmo's methods produces
errors.
>
>& the best part, it's really easy. Using regedit, remove this key and all subkeys,
>(you may want to make a backup just in case)
>
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer
>
>(You may have to do this for every user on the machine, but I only needed to do
it
>for one)
>That's it. It removes the stupid isscript problem and doesn't produce any errors
>during installation and the programs can still be unstalled afterwards. I've run
>my machine without this key for a good month or two without any problems, so try
>it out.
>
>And in case anyone want to know how I figured out this key was the problem, I have
>installed XP fresh on 5 personal PCs and my computer was the only one putting out
>this error message (all the machines had the same software but only slightly different
>software). After compairing all the registries, this was the only registry key
that
>was not on the other 4 machines that were working correctly.
>
>Hope this helps out a few people out there...
>
>z567eight
>
>
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