Windows Installer hangs at boot

[js]

One thing you could try is to create an image backup
and restore the image to another drive and see if booting
from the other drive fixes it, its a long shot but it takes the
hard drive out of the equation.

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"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message
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>I have been fighting this problem for about 6 months and it is really
>starting to bug me. This all happened on this one machine I am using right
>now. And I ran Ubunbu Live from a SD card (flash drive) and Windows XP
>would no longer boot. I fixed it by running BartPE from flash and restoring
>the registry with ERUNT. I couldn't believe Ubunbu would do this, so I
>repeated it two more times with the same results. Too scared to try this on
>my other computers, so I can't tell you what happens there.
>
> Although I have a lingering side effect. As sometimes Windows boots and
> just the background shows, no Taskbar, and a window saying Windows
> Installer. Although nothing happens. You can leave it for hours and
> nothing else happens. And you can't do anything.
>
> I use a US Robotics utility which I love called iBand. You can add it to
> your Taskbar by the Toolbar option. You can drag it off of the Taskbar as
> well. It is the best utility I have found for monitoring your bandwidth
> traffic (later I found out it is free too). Well after the Ubunbu ordeal,
> iBand is causing the Windows Installer hang. As if I rename the iBand.dll
> to something else, Windows boots perfectly. Or I remember to close this
> Toolbar when I shutdown, it also boots perfectly.
>
> Anybody have any idea how to fix this problem? TIA
>
> --
> Bill
> Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
>

[js]

Thanks for taking the time to provide the feedback.

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"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in message
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> In news:%23egDDe80JHA.140@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl,
> BillW50 typed on Wed, 13 May 2009 07:36:57 -0500:
>> I have been fighting this problem for about 6 months and it is really
>> starting to bug me. This all happened on this one machine I am using
>> right now. And I ran Ubunbu Live from a SD card (flash drive) and
>> Windows XP would no longer boot. I fixed it by running BartPE from
>> flash and restoring the registry with ERUNT. I couldn't believe
>> Ubunbu would do this, so I repeated it two more times with the same
>> results. Too scared to try this on my other computers, so I can't
>> tell you what happens there.
>>
>> Although I have a lingering side effect. As sometimes Windows boots
>> and just the background shows, no Taskbar, and a window saying Windows
>> Installer. Although nothing happens. You can leave it for hours and
>> nothing else happens. And you can't do anything.
>>
>> I use a US Robotics utility which I love called iBand. You can add it
>> to your Taskbar by the Toolbar option. You can drag it off of the
>> Taskbar as well. It is the best utility I have found for monitoring
>> your bandwidth traffic (later I found out it is free too). Well after
>> the Ubunbu ordeal, iBand is causing the Windows Installer hang. As if
>> I rename the iBand.dll to something else, Windows boots perfectly. Or
>> I remember to close this Toolbar when I shutdown, it also boots
>> perfectly.
>> Anybody have any idea how to fix this problem? TIA
>
> Well US Robotics apparently now has come out with a newer version of iBand
> called v1.30. The one I was using was 1.27. Which was the latest one until
> just recently. And the problem disappeared for now, oddly enough with
> v1.30.
>
> http://www.usrobotics.com/support/s-software.asp
>
> --
> Bill
> Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
>