"The installer encountered error 1601: The Windows installer Service
could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in
safe mode or if the Windows installer is not correctly installed.
Contact your support personnel for assistance."
this is the issue, I have searched google up and down with fixes to this problem for hours, I have tried everything you can to restarting the service, reinstalling windows installer, editing the registery from a recommendation I heard that fixed others with the same error, plus numerous others, but to no avail.
I am just wondering if this is something I should pay FTR tech support to diagnose or if its something I should call Microsoft about, or just trying to repair XP itself through the Windows XP cd.
If this is a common problem with XP, please let me know any fixes that you can recommend to solve this issue.
This is IBM t30 laptop
Processor 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 RAM 1 GB DDR Hard Drive 40 GB Graphics Coprocessor ATI Radeon 7500
I have another IBM laptop with XP on it also that FTR works great on, so why is the first laptop having this issue?
Please and thanks!