![]() Thank Heavens.ĭeleting the following key restores the functionality of the Windows Installer: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ We felt obliged to find a way for our customers to restore their PCs if they have got into this trap by installing Add-in Express. ![]() And in this way, we overpowered Error 2908.īut this was not the end of the story. This research forced us to decrease the number of Add-in Express files by moving demo projects to a ZIP archive. We don’t know if this number depends on the number of custom actions. Then we found that the number of files that does the trick lies between 10. Moreover, it turned out that install/uninstall is enough for breaking the Windows Installer down. But when we added a custom action (Install, Rollback, and Uninstall), we got Error 2098 again. Nevertheless, this setup program has run through the install/uninstall/install procedure successfully. To verify this assumption, we created a simple setup with some 2000 files. You should try to have fewer than 817 components per feature.” This could cause problems on Win9X systems. This was somehow backed up by Orca that reported the following incomprehensible warning message: “Feature ‘DefaultFeature’ has XXXX components. However, we googled out some vague notes that the cause of this error may relate to the number of files included into the package. As you may assume, Crystal Reports supporters sent poor devils back to Microsoft. This resulted in “reinstalling windows on computers affected with the error.” What Microsoft suggested is “ask Business Objects company that produces the Crystal Report for assistance”. Then we found an interesting post on the forum: they added Crystal Reports merge modules to their setup and got this error. But none of those workarounds worked for us. Workarounds exist for installing Office 2000 on Windows 98 or ME, NET Framework 1.1, Visual Studio 2005. If you google for “Error 2908″, you’ll find out that this error occurs for a number of applications. Windows Installer Error Messages doesn’t provide any useful info. That is, from the common point of view, Windows becomes inoperable. What is worse, when the setup program is complete, you get this error again when you install or uninstall any MSI-based product. It is obvious that the message is shown for every file included into the package. NET product packages are installed, uninstalled and re-installed for the second time, the “Error 2908″ message is shown a tremendous number of times. ![]() ![]() On one of our test PC (a virtual one) with VS 2008 Beta2 installed on Windows XP, we got the following problem. ![]()
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