Very slow installs taking hours to complete or windows installer stops responding. help - thanks.

Any hardware issues? Is it happening on all servers? Santhosh Sivarajan | MCTS, MCSE (W2K3/W2K/NT4), MCSA (W2K3/W2K/MSG), CCNA, Network+ Houston, TX http://blogs.sivarajan.com/ http://publications.sivarajan.com/ This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

For general troubleshooting steps, you can try to perform a clean boot to see if it is affected by third party program or service: Perform a clean startup to determine whether background programs are interfering with your game or program http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796 If issue persists, go to Services.msc, try Stop and Start the service to see if there is any error. Meanwhile, please let me know if the issue occurs on specific program, or if the issue occurs on all programs or updates which requests using Windows Installer.

Hi, Sorry been on vacation. The problems happen across the server estate. rebooting and performing general cleanups as per various articles has not helped. The only item i have not tried from is to run a msizap, and to keep running it until I found a possible program causing the problem, my main problem is that these are physical terminal servers, i will therefore need to run a migration to a virtual platform to test this. Any other ideas please.