The Windows Installer service is running.Ĭlearly, no online advice has worked and there are no solutions. Windows Media Player already is installed. I've found and zipped the installation log file but so far there's no place to send it. I've downloaded the installation fail fixit and run it. Uninstall advice does not work because the programs were never installed in the first place I've downloaded and tried running the offline standalone installer.Īll Windows Live directories and files have been removed.
To save the time of asking me to take steps that will work: Windows was freshly installed on the computer a few months ago with no problem. The computer is running 64 bit Windows 7. There are no previous Messenger installations on the computer. Installation stops when installing Messenger. The repeated error message - error 0x80040609 - source WLX suite Here's the latest in a long series of unsolvable problems where Windows Essentials 2012 can not be installed.
