Diehard

Nothing that uses windows installer works, I have tried all the solutions that I can find on the web. I've run sfc and done a restore. Unfortunately my oldest restore point was after I installed all of the .msu files from the MEGA site. I give up, probably don't need any new windows software anyhow.

The problem I'm still having is that none of the .exe files from the MEGA link can find the windows installer, even though the service is running, and if I type msiexec in the run command it opens windows installer 4.5.

So I got the nerve to run sfc and it fixed the integrity issues, ( and everything else still seems to work ), but the .exe updates from the MEGA link still can't access windows installer. I looked deeper into them and discovered that perhaps they are looking for MSI ver 3.1, whereas I have ver 4.5. Quote below from file "Strings.xml" included in "NDP45-KB4020507-x86.exe" from the MEGA files. " <!-- MSI 3.1 required dialog --> <IDS_MSI31_REQUIRED>#(loc.ids_msi31_required)</IDS_MSI31_REQUIRED>"

Okay, thanks. I'm still leery of letting sfc run through its 800 kb CBS.log since otherwise my computer seems to be working fine, maybe I'll just live without those particular net updates. .

Thank you for your quick reply, it is my understanding that the system file checker "repairs" these files by replacing them with original versions from the installation media, if these files have been updated would the updates not be lost?

Just discovered this thread, awesome! I don't claim to know a whole lot about software, but I did manage to install most of the updates from the MEGA link, (https://mega.nz/#F!txxRyLzC!1vBMGzMHiL864f3bl1Rj1w), but any of them with an .exe extension won't install due to "windows installer service could not be accessed", I applied some common fixes and repairs with no success. When I run System File Checker /verifyonly, it finds multiple integrity issues. If I let SFC repair them, will it rollback the updates? Thank-you