Comments on: Error “the Windows Installer Service Could Not Be Accessed” In Windows Vista

By: andrea

andrea — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:54:58 +0000

I tried this, but when I change it to manual, and try to start it, the load bar thing goes a bit green, and then gives me this error; windows installer service on local computer started and then stopped. some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or programs. Whatttt.

By: Amrita

Amrita — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:51:09 +0000

THANK YOU!!!!! i have struggled with this issue since my last reinstall, and it was common to all the 3 vista machines in the house…merging the given reg key was the only thing that worked – i had tried probably everything out there on the net…unregister/register, installing msi 4.5, renaming msiexec,…everything.
Again, thank you very much!

By: ODIBI JOHN I

ODIBI JOHN I — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:45:35 +0000

thanks, i was having problem in installing software, error massage like window installer service coukd not be aiccessed and i was trouble.so i come in to this site and followed the instruction,its work for me kudo to you

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:54:23 +0000

Mrarun
Thank you so much!! Your the greatest!! I knew that it was a registry key issue and sure thing that was the problem because everything else was fine including window module installer. I just felt with the corrupt key in the registry and being able to replace it with a new key would work. So trying MSISERVER.ZIP worked for me!! Again thank you so much for sharing your gift for computer issues with us and me!!!

Best Regards
Steve

By: katie

katie — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:21:23 +0000

Thank you so much. Have been wading through forums for ages and this is the first solution that actually seems to have worked! Thank you!

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:07:24 +0000

Thomas, i have to agree with u. These guys saved me :D Thank you very much.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:59:53 +0000

MSISERVER.ZIP worked for me after hours of trying every solution i could ,,, thank you very much ,,,, it very refreshing to know there’s still individuals who offer a legitimate solution

By: adam

adam — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:08:47 +0000

when i go to services, find windows installer and make it manual it all goes well, BUT when i click start is says ‘error 109, the pipe has ended’.
plz help with this as i cant fix with system restore because that doesnt work.
PLZ REPLY

By: Amir

Amir — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:17:55 +0000

when clicking on merge a note pad is opening and nothing happens!

By: Mrarun

Mrarun — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:49:38 +0000

If your still having problems after Re-Registering, Re-installing and adding the Reg files etc then this is the link for you

http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/how-to-fix-the-windows-installer-service-could-not-be-accessed-error/

If you don’t want to read basically right click the RPC service (a dependency of windows installer) and go to Log On. If your log on is on Local system account change it to this account and vice versa. Mine was on this account and I changed it to Local and it worked!