Bill Sanderson's Installation Fix

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I had a problem installing Defender - the .msi opened in wordpad and
displayed garbage. Bill posted a fix for this on 3/24 and it worked great.
Bill also offerd a fix for restoring the default .msi association. This
information is in the thread "Theres an error when installing Windows ...",
dated 3/22/2006. Unfortunately part of Bill's permanant fix was a link which
is not displayed. If anyone (Bill ?) has the link location can you please
post it here? Thanks.
 
Thanks--not sure what happened to the link in that post--did I just forget
to put it in there?

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/fileassoc/msi_assoc.zip

This is the file I meant to point to. As I recall, I had some minor
difficulties making it work--maybe it worked in c:\, but it didn't work on
the desktop--something odd like that.

Try it out and let me know what happens--should be simple and quick.
 
I got the file, unzipped it and placed it in the c: root in windows explorer.
When I ran the program a notepad window opened with a listing of the values
for the .msi package. Since this didn't seem like the desired result I ran
regedit.exe from a command prompt and imported the msi1.reg (dougknox's
file). Windows told me the file was already in the registry. I assume this
means your suggestion worked, however your quick fix for installing Defender
was successful so I don't have any way to test it.
 
Hmm - I think you've changed the association with .reg files to
Notepad--this may be done as a safety valve by some software--not sure. at
any rate, importing the info in that file to the registry is the "fix."

If you can double click on a .msi file and have it install--you're fixed.

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Thanks Bill, you're my hero. The Defender .msi opens all by itself now, no
command line necessary. I've been working with Microsoft over a week to get
Defender installed and will pass along this thread to them. I noticed
www.dougknox.com has other file association fixes as well. Perhaps a .reg
fix is available. I would be nice if a file association check could be
included in the Live Care tune up. Again, thanks for the great help.
 
Great--I think it is likely a fix for .REG association is present on Doug
Knox' site--as I say--the way your machine is set up may well be
intentional, as a "safety catch." Many users find it disquieting that
double-clicking on a .reg file and responding to a prompt triggers an change
to the registry which can't easily be reversed. So I know that some folks
advocate changing the association in exactly the way it is on your
system--so that you can see what's in the file, safely, in notepad.

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