Vista - install wizard wont work

so this has been happening ever since i got a new hard drive installed and a logitech g15 keyboard. for some reason, i cannot install games with the installation wizard. it will go through accepting this and that, clicking next a few times, putting in the serial, and then when it gets to the instlalation itself, it says "initializing program to install" yet the green bar wont move to the left, or even show up for that matter. it just stays there. at first it didnt bother me because i somehow got around it, but now i have mirrors edgeand i want to install it, but i cant because of this problem. i am admin, and (uac i think it is?) is disabled, so thats not the case either. please help

can you put up a screenshot when it happens?

just enable UAC for this install and run as administrator, even though you are an administrator, some programs still need elevation. try it with UAC and get back to us.

it doesnt give me the option to run as an administrator. i think its because i am the actual administrator, so the option doesnt show up.

also when i try to hit cancel to get out of the setup, i have to end three different processes. two are install wizard processes and another is a setup.exe process.

Installshield wizard wont install my games, no error though

that person seems to have the same thing happening to him. at least im not alone haha. but does anyone know maybe why it isnt working?

this is different though....

but on that case open a elevated command prompt and do a SFC/scannow...

the reason why is because it is a MSI and not a exe.....

trusted installer service will automatically give msi's elevated access (they have to be authenticated of course....)

i try to put the command into new task as sfc /sannow and a command box shows up then just closes.

and not to be mean but im not that smart hahaha. could you please explain what this all means

i just realized that although the installer stays like how it is in the picture, it creates a destination where it usually would be. i looked up the properties and it said that the file included 16 folders, yet no folders and that it was 0 bytes. so a destination is made for where the files are supposed to go, yet the files are obviously not present as a result of the installer never actually installing.

forgot to include it...lol
and its sfc /scannow (just in case if it was a misspelling...)

Elevated Command Prompt

yeah i tried but it didnt do anything

ok this might be a bigger problem that what you are experiencing....

try to get to safe mode

Safe Mode

then do it there the sfc /scannow... (also check for malware if you can)

System Files - SFC Command