A number of Windows 7 testers have succumbed to a bug that is causing them to crash randomly whenever they try to start Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer. But a couple ...

You can’t install the same version of Office products that use two different installation technologies installed on the same computer. In this post, we will show ...

Some Windows 7 beta users recently started noticing that Explorer and some MSI-based installers were crashing or just not working properly. The problem was discovered to be in the Customer Experience ...

The Windows Installer cache folder is a hidden system folder located at C:\Windows\Installer. Whenever you install software using the Windows Installer, a copy of the changed system information is ...

No more DLL hell. That was just one of Microsoft Corp.’s goals when it introduced the Windows Installer service along with Windows 2000 nearly four years ago. The service, which now runs on Windows XP ...