{"id":187,"date":"2005-05-22T13:45:52","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T18:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=187"},"modified":"2025-03-29T14:33:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:33:28","slug":"error-1719-the-windows-installer-service-could-not-be-accessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/error-1719-the-windows-installer-service-could-not-be-accessed\/","title":{"rendered":"“Error 1719. The Windows Installer service could not be accessed”"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you try to add or remove a program that uses Windows Installer Microsoft Software Installation (MSI) package file (.msi), you may have seen the following error.<\/p>\n

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I ran into this when I was trying to remove Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1 software from Add or Remove Programs in Windows XP. You may experience this error with Microsoft Office or any other software that uses .msi to install a program. The reason for the error is typically corrupted or missing Windows Installer files on your computer. There are a couple of solutions to fix the problem. You can either try to re-register (Plan A) or re-install (Plan B) the Windows Installer.<\/p>\n

Plan A<\/b><\/span>
\nTo re-register Windows Installer, first locate the Msiexec.exe file on your computer (typically in C:\\Windows\\System32) and then verify in the registry that the location is pointing to the correct path. Run regedit.exe and go to this location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\MSIServer. Double-click on the ImagePath entry in the right-hand pane and make sure it matches with the actual path for Msiexec.exe, if not correct the path. Typically the enry would look like this: C:\\Windows\\System32\\Msiexec.exe \/V<\/b>. Reboot your computer into Safe Mode and at the command prompt run msiexec \/regserver<\/b> to re-register the Windows Installer and then reboot your computer in normal mode.<\/p>\n

Plan B<\/b><\/span>
\nIf Plan A doesn’t fix the problem then try re-installing the Windows Installer. Reboot in Safe Mode, rename the following three files and then reboot your computer.<\/p>\n

msi.dll
\nmsiexec.exe
\nmsihnd.dll<\/p>\n

Windows XP already includes Windows Installer version 2.0. Reboot your computer in the normal mode. For more information on this topic, check out Microsoft’s KB article Q315346.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you try to add or remove a program that uses Windows Installer Microsoft Software Installation (MSI) package file (.msi), you may have seen the following error. I ran into this when I was trying to remove Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 1 software from Add or Remove Programs in Windows XP. You may experience this error […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,11,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-registry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-xp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t