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    windows installer service could not be accessed

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by ShoopDaWhoop, Apr 30, 2014.

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    So I just got a new laptop and I have been installing a couple of files mainly games. Recently however, I have been unable to install quite a number of them because of this problem (see attached pic). I have windows 8.1. I have tried checking services.msc to see if windows installer is running and initially it wasn't but then I turned it on but the problems persisted. A couple of the programs that I wasn't able to install were Red Alert 3, Razer Synapse, Tune Up Utilities etc. Please help. I am not that experienced with computer stuff so please try to explain plainly. Thank you View attachment 111478
     
    ShoopDaWhoop, Apr 30, 2014
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