I have not installed anything YET. I do plan to install Norton Utilities
2004 and Anti-Virus 2004 soon, probably tonight. I do not expect any
problems because the version downgrade was only from 2.0.2600.2 to
2.0.2600.0 which is a 5 month difference. If I do not post any further
replies, then I did not have any problems installing.

BTW, as you probably already know, many programs come with their own copy
of Windows Installer 2.0. If you install any new programs with it, you
will be involuntarily "upgraded" to Installer 2.0. The best way to avoid
problems is to download that INSTALL.EXE file, extract the v2.0.2600.0
MSISIP.DLL, and ZIP it into an archive. You can always delete the 8.5 MB
INSTALL.EXE file. I already did. I was pretty tired last night when I
tried to install Installer 1.1 over 2.0. When I first looked at the 1.1
Archive file, I thought there was an MSISIP.DLL file in there. Looking
again, however, I see there is no such file.

Finally, did you happen to notice the date of that GoogleGroups post? It's
dated August 2002. This has been a known bug for 2 years, 4 months and
Microsoft has done NOTHING about it! GRRRRRRR. I wonder if XP has this
same problem since they are more likely to have Installer 2.0. I'll bet
you one MSISIP.DLL file XP has this bug too. LOL.


PCR wrote:
Interesting. I was worried a bit that I don't have a MSISIP.DLL at all,
any version. However, I see one of the solutions at that Google search
of yours is to delete that file. I guess you don't get one unless you've
taken Windows Installer v2.0, (which I have never found the need to do).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/r...eleaseID=32831
Windows Installer v.2.0

Using WinZip to look inside "InstMsiA.exe" downloaded to TEMP from
there, it did indeed have an "msisip.dll". Extracting that into TEMP,
indeed it is v.2.0.2600.2.

Also, I note the one/only "InstMsiA.exe" I had before this was in a
McAfee "setup" folder. Looking inside, there is no "msisip.dll" in that
one.

So, what you say has the ring of truth, BUT... well, I guess I'd rather
replace the file if I had one instead of just deleting it. ANYWAY...

How are installations going, now that you've replaced yours?