Re: "This installation package could not be opened."

wildmanfrost

This error indicates several possibilities:

1. The file doesn't exist or is corrupt. Easily verified, is it there?
Will a copy of it install on another machine? If yes, the file is good.

2. The file is not a valid MSI file. Well if it installed on another
machine, then it is.

3. A problem with MSI itself, which has been sufficiently covered.

4. You do not have permissions to the file, aka security problem. This
is what mine was, but the security issue was not apparent. Checking all
security settings checked out ok. However, I created anothe user account
with admin rights and everyting installed fine. Not only that, but
everyting now installs fine on my problem user.

Hmm. Well a light went off, I had changed the user name on my account.
I believe that this is the problem. XP was famous for not changing
everything in the user profile when the account name was changed. Most
people buy a comp from and OEM and change the user name from OWNER to
thiers. I would suggest creating a user account as a practice and
deleting the OWNER account.

Hope this helps.


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wildmanfrost