I've been running Windows 7 for about a week now. Over the weekend I tried to install the F# CTP and .NET Services for Azure on my machine and got the following error: Windows installer has stopped workingWindows is collecting more information about the problem.This might take several minutes... It doesn't seem to matter which app I try to install - I get the same error. For example, I also recieved the same error when I tried to install the Tortoise SVN client this morning.Anyone else encounter this or have suggestions for a fix? I'm going to try restoring to an earlier version to see if that clears it up. I tried rebooting but that didn't change anything."We're all in it together, kid." - Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer

try to install then in compaibility mode by right clicking on the setup go to properties then click on compatibility tab then check run in compatibility mode for select windows vista n change other settigs as per your requirement then install it. your problem may get fixed.

nitinagarwal1988 said: try to install then in compaibility mode by right clicking on the setup go to properties then click on compatibility tab then check run in compatibility mode for select windows vista n change other settigs as per your requirement then install it. your problem may get fixed.Tried running the Tortoise SVN install by right-clicking the icon on my desktop and selecting "Troubleshoot compatibility".I went through this process twice - once going for Vista compatibility, the other time I selected Windows XP.Both cases resulted in an "Issues found" message of "Incompatibile Application".Any other ideas?"We're all in it together, kid." - Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer

nitinagarwal1988 said: try to install then in compaibility mode by right clicking on the setup go to properties then click on compatibility tab then check run in compatibility mode for select windows vista n change other settigs as per your requirement then install it. your problem may get fixed.I also tried this with the F# CTP and the .NET Services for Azure install - neither worked. It could be coincidence that I just tried to install 3 apps that are incompatible with Windows 7. Seems odd that I'd bat 0 for 3 though all in a row.I was going to try reverting to an erlier version, but my only restore point was created today (I've only been running it a week). So that option is out."We're all in it together, kid." - Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer

Random crashing of explorer and msiexec.exe when trying to start Windows Update or install anything that uses an MSI based installer?Read http://chris123nt.com/2009/01/18/sqm-client-causing-crashing-in-windows-7/I had the same thing, every time I tried to manually look for updates explorer would crash. The workaround in that article works!Sunshine

Sunshine [sunsh] said: Random crashing of explorer and msiexec.exe when trying to start Windows Update or install anything that uses an MSI based installer?I haven't had issues with IE crashing during MSI installs yet - my issue happens even when they've been downloaded and are being executed from the HD."We're all in it together, kid." - Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer

Bleak Morn said: Sunshine [sunsh] said: Random crashing of explorer and msiexec.exe when trying to start Windows Update or install anything that uses an MSI based installer?I haven't had issues with IE crashing during MSI installs yet - my issue happens even when they've been downloaded and are being executed from the HD. "We're all in it together, kid." - Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer I initially misunderstood the issue this fixed. It was related to my issue.When I tried the fix listed in Sunshine's link, it seems to have resolved the issue."We're all in it together, kid." - Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer