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windows installer sucks

by Daniel Molina Wegener on 2008.06.05
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Anyone can use the Windows Installer to add applications to the system. Today I have gained another headache thanks to Microsfot Products. The situation: I need to upgrade to JDK 1.6. The problem: Windows Installer isn’t working.

With the Sun JDK 1.6 install I get the next error message:

Windows Installer Sucks!!!

Then, I’ve tried to start the Windows Installer Service and I get the next error message:

Windows Installer Service Sucks!!!

I’m getting really hatred… And then I look into the Event Log and I get the next error message:


No se puede conectar al servidor. Error: 0x8007041D

Para obtener más información, vea el Centro de ayuda y soporte técnico en http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Then I search in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for known bugs and I get this link to all possible solutions. Then I do exactly every applicable solutions to my current operating system and I can’t get the problem solved.

Again, Using the force — as become an habit while I’m using Micro$oft Wintendo — I get the goal and can start the installer service just turning on the grant access to the desktop from the named service.

Windows really sucks and makes me loose time...

Again I ask the same questions: Where is the fucking most productive platform in the market place?!, If I can’t install normally a program normally, If none of the above tricks from Micro$oft makes the installer work?!, and where are gone the past two hours loosed in these kind of tasks?!

Sorry, but here is when a claim for something really simple, such as apt-get install sun-jdk, portinstall -PP diablo-jdk and really friendly commands like Linux and FreeBSD have, not this bullshit worst thing on the marketplace about easy to use operating systems that aren’t working


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