Fix “Windows Installer Service could not be accessed” error in Windows Vista

chacha_chaudhry · 06-23-2009, 06:48 AM

How to fix Windows Installer Service could not be accessed error in Windows Vista?

It may happen that while installing a program using Windows Installer you may encounter the following error dialog box:

Figure 1

To counter this problem you can choose any of the following options:

Option 1: Using Windows Services

1) Open Start menu and type services.msc in the search box and press Enter key

Figure 2

2) Click Continue button if prompted by UAC

3) Navigate to the Windows Installer service and double click it

Figure 3

4) Choose Manual from the Startup type dropdown list

Figure 4

5) Click Start button

6) Click OK button

Option 2: Using Registry fix

If the Option 1 does not work then follow these steps:

1) Download the file wifix.zip given at the bottom of the post under Attached files section

2) Save it to a desired location

3) Open the file wifix.zip and double click the wifix.reg file

Figure 5

4) Click Continue button if prompted by UAC

5) Click Yes button to confirm

Figure 6

6) Click OK button the process is successful

Trav1s420 · 08-29-2009, 11:41 AM

Honestly if I could hug you right now I would!
thx so much.
:]
This totally fixed my issue.

chacha_chaudhry · 08-31-2009, 06:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trav1s420

Honestly if I could hug you right now I would!
thx so much.
:]
This totally fixed my issue.

Hello Trav1s420,

Welcome to Itechtalk.

I'm glad that this tutorial helped you.

Thanks.

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08-29-2009, 11:41 AM	#2 (permalink)
Trav1s420 Status: Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1	Honestly if I could hug you right now I would! thx so much. :] This totally fixed my issue.