Vista - destinations.msi

Recently, an error message has started during start up. Windows installer is
performing some additional configuration of Windows Sidebar and is looking
for the file "destinations.msi" in a temporary folder that was cleaned out
and no longer exists. Does anyone know what this file is and perhaps suggest
a solution?

Thank you,
--
Jess Aynes

have you downloaded a add-in to the side bar? and before installing it,
cleaned up temporary files? as so far it looks to me like this, so you have
to once again download that gadget add-in and restart the process.


"Jess Aynes" <JessAynes@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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.. Open a command prompt by being Administrator (Right click on Command Prompt and click Run as Administrator)
2. CD to C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar ( cd drive letter:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar )
3. Run these commands in this order:
1. regsvr32 -u sbdrop.dll
2. regsvr32 -u wlsrvc.dll
3. regsvr32 atl.dll
4. regsvr32 sbdrop.dll
5. regsvr32 wlsrvc.dll

And start up the side bar It should work

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My HP printer software was the culprit. I uninstalled my HP printer
software, restarted the computer and the problem is fixed. I
reinstalled my HP software and things are fine so far.

Download the HP Vista unified driver for inkjet printers from the HP site. Run the driver and it will extract the files to your "temp" folder. Go to your temp folder, drill down and you will find a folder named "destinations". Copy this folder to another area of your choice. Now, when sidebar asks for the destinations.msi file, browse to the destinations folder you created.

Destinations.msi will do its thing and that solves the problem.

Ken