Theres an error when installing Windows Defender Beta 2

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After I save the installation file to the destop and run the installer,
notepad opens up and has a bunch of codes on it. What can i do to solve this.
I use a amd athlan processor from hp which is Windows XP. Thank you and
please repliy as soon as possible.
 
If you go to a command prompt on the desktop and do:

msiexec /i windowsdefender.msi

and hit enter

what happens?
 
OK--here's another way: You have "windowsdefender.msi" sitting on the
desktop, right?

Do Start, Run, and cut and paste the line below into that box marked Open,
and hit OK:

msiexec /i "%userprofile%\desktop\windowsdefender.msi"

Be sure to get both quote marks in there.

What happens?
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Thanks Bill. The installer finally worked after you told me to write msiexec
/i "%userprofile%\desktop\windowsdefender.msi". I just one question. What if
i decide to reinstall Windows defender but i can't because i have to use that
line all the time. So what can I do to permently solve this problem? Thank
for your time.
 
I'm not sure what the permanent solution is. I'd have thought that
reinstalling the Windows Installer would fix this, but it has not--so I'm
suspicious that perhaps some malware has changed permissions on some
registry items. I'm going to ask some other folks, and see if I can get
some better solution--I've seen about 4 cases of this issue in these groups.
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I've got a fix, I think, and it is fairly simple:

Please go here:

and right click "MSI File Association fix" from the list, choose "Save
Target As" and save it to the desktop.

On the desktop right-click the file and choose Extract All. This will
create an unzipped folder. Open that folder.

Do Start, Run, c:\ and hit Enter.

This will open the root of the C drive in Windows Explorer.

The folder contains one file--msi1.reg. Drag or copy that file from the
folder on the desktop to the Windows Explorer window. Once you have it in
the Explorer window, double-click on it, and say yes to prompts about adding
the information in it to your registry.

This should restore the default file associations for the .MSI files, and
enable you to simply double-click on them in the future.


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