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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@JuanFlacco - Its a Windows Installer error - not a calibre error - whenever you run an .msi you are running the Trusted Installer, the .msi file is the data it consumes. Its a pity MS doesn't indicate that in the message. ...
I'm pretty sure if you follow the procedure in that blog item you'll be OK.
Most often this error is caused by a power out, or a BSOD at the exact wrong moment whilst something is installing.
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I was in the process of following all the links in the initial article you cited. While trying to do a Clean Boot, I wound up having to go into Safe Mode for whatever arcane reason Windows 7 had for not letting me do a clean boot.
When I came out of Safe Mode and rebooted normally, I tried the install again. This time it looked like it was going to work. However it gave me some kind of message about Visual Studio 2010 Shell not being completed and tried to roll back. Since it kept looping to the roll-back option I had to end the program with the Task Manager. Oddly enough, when I started Calibre, lo!, it said I had version 2.1.0. So I guess that worked.
I then went to the last link to indicated to see what I could find, but I never found the Windows\Installer\InProgress key that he references. So I am guessing that whatever combination of what I did shook it out of its vicious cycle.
I wish Microsoft would fix it to where various software would "play nice" with each other. What really annoys me is when Windows decides to update itself and does not indicate that is what is going on. That has caused me several problems of late. It may have caused this problem.
Anyway, you seem to have pointed me in the right direction. Thank you all for your help. At least Calibre is well-behaved. It performs as advertised. I have been much pleased with it and will have to donate more to support it.
Thanks again!
Cheers!
Allen, aka JuanFlacco