installer service

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Hi,

Just selecting diagnostic mode on the general tab will disable everything
non-essential. Click apply/ok and reboot, retry the installation.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
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"Casey" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1e19501c4555e$9ce33800$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I have read a www.autodesk.com artilce that explains
> using the msconfig diagnostic option to get around an
> install issue on XP. IT ststed to disable just about
> everything except windows installer. However, when I do
> this I have no clue what the windows installer is
> supposed to look like. They say that it is supposed to bo
> on the system tab but I can't make heads os tails of what
> I am seeing. I tried the clean boot instructions in the
> knowledge base which stated I could manually start the
> service through the mmc, however, these options are
> greyed out. Can anyone tell me what box to place the
> check mark in to load windows installer service in
> diagnostic mode? Ans also a good article that explains
> the rest of what I am seeing. Thanks