Customer Support: The ‘Windows Installer Service Could Not Be Accessed’ error message when you install a program in Windows XP

June 29, 2007 by CATPrep

A recent customer wrote to support concerning a known potential issue with Microsoft Windows’s Windows Installer program. He was encountering the following error message when attempting to install our software:

“The Windows Installer Service Could Not Be Accessed” error message when you install a program in Windows XP"

Luckily we were able to refer him to a document on Microsoft’s Website for resolving this issue. Here are the relevant links: