quote:Apparently there's a bug in Microsoft's Customer Experience Improvement Program that's causing msiexec to crash. It can be fixed by turning off Customer Experience Improvement Program or by editing the registry. Turning off CEIP: http://chris123nt.com/2009/01/18/sqm-client-causi...hing-in-windows-7/ regedit: navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisabledSessions rename MachineThrottling to _MachineThrottling http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/...5d0ee850ec/#page:3