Installer Crashing in Windows7 Beta 1 (build 7000)
by Michael Healy @ 2:11 pm on January 26th, 2009 in windows 7 with 2 Comments
As a follow-up to a comment placed ealier in the “Adding Weather to Media Center” article I realized there is a bug I forgot to mention in the previous posting. This will undoubtedly only apply to the Beta builds of Windows 7 though it’s something we need to work around until a fix is released.
It seems that certain MSI files simply won’t work in Win7 and cause an immediate crash due to a registry string. Thanks to the MSFN forums and Shark007, who develops a Windows 7 Codec Pack, we have a temporary fix.
To solve the issue with crashing MSI installers follow the simple directions below to edit the offending registry key:
- Open regedit through the start menu in admin mode by typing regedit into the box at the bottom and pressing ctrl-shift-enter
- navigate to “HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftSQMClientWindowsDisabledSessions” and find the entry titled “MachineThrottling”
- Rename this entry to something else, such as “_MachineThrottling”
That should solve the problem with installers crashing on build 7000 Beta.
