Dave332

Try running memtest86. if you can run through it like 5 times, your ram is probably good. Also, If you are using a VIA or SiS chipset, they sometimes cause weird problems like that (not that all of them will cause problems, but it's something to check into.). You might actually check the hard drive as well. A very similar problem happened to me about a year ago, and as it turned out, my hard drive was in the process of dying.

ok - checked my cd and the harddrive, doesn't appear to be on either.

the repair was done from my "original" (a normal windows xp cd with SP2 slipstream) and that fixed the problem. I went and checked, and cant find msiexec.dll listen in txtsetup.sif on the original or the unattended, nor can i find the file anywhere.

I used nlite on my first cd, but on my most recent two I just manually removed cmpnents, SUPPORT, VALUEADD, i386\WIN9XMIG, i386\WIN9XUPG, and i386\WINNTUPG.

I've redone my cd 3 times already. there's clearly something wrong that I'm not seeing. I'm not trying to crap the boards or anything, I just need a solution.

For some reason, windows installer service doesn't work on my unnattended cd. After an unattended install, all msi's and exe's that use windows installer will not run. They just say the windows installer service is not running. Attempting to start the service doesn't work either. I get a path not found error. I have checked for msiexec.exe and msiexec.dll. msiexec.exe is in system32, but I can't find msiexec.dll anywhere. A repair from my source disk (slipstreamed SP2) seems to fix the problem, but I still can't get it to work with my unattended disk. any help is appreciated.

anyone know where i can get msiexec.dll?

msiexec.exe is there, but not msiexec.dll

I couldn't get mine to work until I turned off encryption.

I checked DCOM Process Launcher and it's running. Here is the exact error I get: "The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you re running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personell for assistance." Still don't know what the heck is going on.

I'm going to bed, cause i've been up for like 24 hours, but my installers aren't locked or anything and they're just winrar SFX's - you should be able to use winrar to incorporate whatever theme you want, prathapml. I've never worked with Thunderbird themes before, I'll have to look into it, but you should be able to add files, scripts, and registry entries with no problem via the latest version of winrar. I'll do more work on it later.

you could theoretically create a system by which some sort of handheld device used standard radio frequencies to talk to the computer (that wouldn't be too hard to set up as far as hardware goes) and then uses that communication to trigger calls to the cgi/php/asp pages on the "online messaging centers" for various cell providers. The tough part would be the programming involved in writing a protocol that would be able to effectivly organize the data and be able to get it to the right site with all the data intact. If you're talking about just one device to another, you could use like a palm pilot with linux or something and either just use Ir and boost the signal or you could wire whatever network connection it had to a small radio transmitter/reciever and then do the opposite on the second device so you could effectively have a wireless network between the two. You'd still have to write the program to let them talk back and forth though. I guess what I'm getting at is that it's possible, but in the longrun, it's way less complicated/expensive to just use a cellphone. But if you just want to do it for kicks and giggles, by all means, do try. And get a patent afterwards.

Ok, I've been working with getting Thunderbird to be set as default. As far as I can determine, the following code sets it as the default client: REG ADD HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command /VE /D "%ProgramFiles%\MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD\THUNDERBIRD.EXE -compose %1" /F REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto\shell\open\command /VE /D"%ProgramFiles%\MOZILLA THUNDERBIRD\THUNDERBIRD.EXE -compose %1" /F Still have to test one more thing, but that should work. unfortunately, thunderbird still asks if you want to set it as default on first run.

Don't know if it set thunderbird default or not, but it does put itself in the start menu. Basically, I just worked the Firefox 1.01 setup fix into a winrar SFX.

How do I make/upload a torrent for Thunderbird and Sunbird?

sweet - I'll update the link in a minute. I'm making a sunbird install right now. EDIT: Updated the link. Sunbird is now done too.

Hey everybody, Here's a Mozilla Thunderbird unattended installer I made from Firefox 1.01 and WinRar. Just run with /S EDIT: Thunderbird: http://rapidshare.de/files/738266/Thunderbird.exe.html SunBird: http://rapidshare.de/files/738336/sunbird.exe.html

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If you can give me the model number on the compaq I'll see if i can find a bios update and specific instructions. BIOS updates are usually done via a dos boot disk. You usually just have to use a provided executable (like awdflash.exe) and give it a rom file to flash to the BIOS chip. Bios flashing can be harmful only if it gets screwed up. It's been known to happen, but it usually doesn't. I've heard of a few people jacking something up, but I've flashed BIOS more times than I can count and I've never had a problem. If you don't want to risk it, ask your super geek to do it for you. Any good alpha geek should have no problem.

yeah, quick reboot worked for me. setting it from cmdlines.txt should work great.

there are tons of things that could cause that. the ram thing is something good to check. However, if clearing CMOS (what happened when you pulled the battery) fixed it, then I would say that it's probably a bios issue. see if there's a bios update available for your motherboard. I believe Compaq/HP should have one available. If not, you might try to look for a compatible third party bios, or if you or someone you know is good with assembly, you could try to fix the bios yourself, although optimally you should probably just try for an official update from compaq/HP.

You should be able to set the reg key from cmdlines.txt so that the reboot after program installs (RunOnceEx, GuiRunOnce) fixes it. I'm going to do some quick testing to see if i can get it to work on my machine.

Are there any third party tools I could use in place of Windows Installer Service? or anyone know how to fix Windows Installer?

Only dependancy is RPC and it's running.

Tried it. still doesn't work and I cant get the service to start