Unfortunately, I've been having issues with my DVDRom (for about 3 months of attemped fixes)...it plays CD (data,audio,programs) but won't play anything but a DVD+R I burned myself..and only media player clasic will play it..I've advice from Microsoft answers..Dell community, microsoft.com..nothing works..I think maybe the lens is defective..The Dell installation DVDs won't work..I may have to buy an external DVDRom.
Getting back to Uninstall problems...I have gone to the InstallShield web site, but all the SScript.msi versions are not the one I have.. I have InstallShield version 4.1.00 and Windows Installer Version 4.5...I just put in the Nikon software suite CD that came with my camera and it installed the programs no problem (I had corrupted the files trying to get rid of apps I didn't need that were running in the background and using resources..Unfortunately that started give me "side-by-side" program errors in Event log..I just reinstalled everything.. I searched for & found 4 instances of msiexec.exe in files and tried to "run" but all the different ways of getting a program to run only brought up a kind of an information box about windows installer that listed what I think are command line commands:
Windows ® Installer. V 4.5.6002.18005
msiexec /Option <Required Parameter> [Optional Parameter]
Install Options
</package | /i> <Product.msi>
Installs or configures a product
/a <Product.msi>
Administrative install - Installs a product on the network
/j<u|m> <Product.msi> [/t <Transform List>] [/g <Language ID>]
Advertises a product - m to all users, u to current user
</uninstall | /x> <Product.msi | ProductCode>
Uninstalls the product
Display Options
/quiet
Quiet mode, no user interaction
/passive
Unattended mode - progress bar only
/q[n|b|r|f]
Sets user interface level
n - No UI
b - Basic UI
r - Reduced UI
f - Full UI (default)
/help
Help information
Restart Options
/norestart
Do not restart after the installation is complete
/promptrestart
Prompts the user for restart if necessary
/forcerestart
Always restart the computer after installation
Logging Options
/l[i|w|e|a|r|u|c|m|o|p|v|x|+|!|*] <LogFile>
i - Status messages
w - Nonfatal warnings
e - All error messages
a - Start up of actions
r - Action-specific records
u - User requests
c - Initial UI parameters
m - Out-of-memory or fatal exit information
o - Out-of-disk-space messages
p - Terminal properties
v - Verbose output
x - Extra debugging information
+ - Append to existing log file
! - Flush each line to the log
* - Log all information, except for v and x options
/log <LogFile>
Equivalent of /l* <LogFile>
Update Options
/update <Update1.msp>[;Update2.msp]
Applies update(s)
/uninstall <PatchCodeGuid>[;Update2.msp] /package <Product.msi | ProductCode>
Remove update(s) for a product
Repair Options
/f[p|e|c|m|s|o|d|a|u|v] <Product.msi | ProductCode>
Repairs a product
p - only if file is missing
o - if file is missing or an older version is installed (default)
e - if file is missing or an equal or older version is installed
d - if file is missing or a different version is installed
c - if file is missing or checksum does not match the calculated value
a - forces all files to be reinstalled
u - all required user-specific registry entries (default)
m - all required computer-specific registry entries (default)
s - all existing shortcuts (default)
v - runs from source and recaches local package
Setting Public Properties
[PROPERTY=PropertyValue]
Consult the Windows ® Installer SDK for additional documentation on the
command line syntax.
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Portions of this software are based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
I'm not sure what all that means or what it is. Under Install Options are those commands to install the program using the command prompt box? if so what exactly are you supposed to type in where their example says: </package I/i>Product.msi> Are you supposed to substitute the name of the program for package and if so, what exactly do you type????? That is a little to technical for me, but I did figure out how to run sfc/scannow in the command box and it found and repaired 3 or 4 files, but I guess not the InstallShield Windows Installer problem.
