Windows Installler Problems

[Ron P.]

I've read several posts here concerning the problems the Windows Installer causes with UVS9.

My question is: will programs still install after removing Windows Installer?

I followed a posted link to M$ website concerning this, and changed to the updated installer. Should I just remove the Windows installer altogether?
I have been running with the updated installer for a couple of weeks with no conflicts until Tuesday..

Tuesday after running Windows update my system went tilt big time. I could sitll use it, with the exception of IE6, and could not do a system restore. I had to take my machine back to where I purchased it to have the OS re-installed. I hate that they install the OS on the machine, but do not provide a disk..

Thanks

Ron

[THoff]

You can't live without having some form of the Windows Installer on your system, so uninstalling it completely is not an option. Also, the new version of Windows Update that is used to deliver security updates, hotfixes, and other updates depends on it.

I'm running on a fully patched Windows XP Professional system with the new installer and UVS 9, and I have no trouble capturing, so just having the installer (or the security updates for that matter) by themselves is not the cause of the problem. It's something more complicated than that.

And it clearly affects more than just UVS. Microsoft pulled the 3.1 installer almost immediately to make fixes, and it still broke Internet Explorer on your system, so I think Ulead is off the hook as far as being the culprit.

I hate that they install the OS on the machine, but do not provide a disk..

That probably isn't legal. I've seen system restoration CDs that basically put back an image of the original installation in the even the system crashes, and I've seen systems with Windows pre-installed that when you first started it up, required you to backup the OS yourself onto optical media, but I have never seen a system legally distributed without some method of recovering.

[Ron P.]

Well my machine that I bought last year, HP Pavillion from Bestbuy, came that way. It did provide a means for restoration, a partitioned harddrive. One of the first things I done was to burn a restore DVD. However after this crash, the Restore disk would not restore it. About 50% through the restoration it threw and error that a Windows System 32.dll could not be extracted. Then others followed. Then it simpy would stop. I've only had to do a full restore on one previous occassion, before SP2, and the disk worked fine then.

I just think that it's nonsense, because if I had the disk, I could have restored it myself. I've built, and restored machines so no biggie, but without something to work with, I can't. Oh I could go and spend $200 for the OS, but that's like purchasing it twice...

Thanks
Ron