Error Opening Installproperties Subkey Of Products Key
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn windows installer folder huge more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting msizap ads with us Super User Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Super User is a question and answer site windows installer cleanup utility for computer enthusiasts and power users. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Delete orphaned msi files up vote 1 down vote favorite I have a computer with 50GB of hard drive and it is almost full (I won't get an upgrade for C because is the company computer) I just check and the C:\Windows\Installer directory is eating more of that space. I tried using msizap.exe to delete the unneeded files but I keep getting this error: MsiZap V 5.0 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved MsiZapInfo: Performing operations for user S-1-5-21-2700949330-2022528980-61785034-4992 Removing orphaned cached files. Error opening 66FC8F6438BA7A83992B5AEB05E74E27\InstallProperties subkey of Products key for S-1-5-18 user. Error: 2. Error opening 9AC087DE786021C34B9333962F4249F1\InstallProperties subkey of Products key for S-1-5-18 user. Error: 2. FAILED to clear all data. What can I do now? windows-7 windows-installer share|improve this question asked Sep 19 '12 at 7:32 Sambatyon 26828 contact your company's IT departement and have them do it –ratchet freak Sep 19 '12 at 8:04 Would love to, but as I know them, it will take three months before the solve the problem –Sambatyon Sep 19 '12 at 11:37 1 Did you run MSIZAP as an administrator when you executed it? –CharlieRB Sep 19 '12 at 12:27 yes, all developers have administrator privileges in their computers –Sambatyon Sep 20 '12 at 10:51 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 0 down vote I had similar error messages and was able to get rid of them by following the instructions in this blog. http://wyang0.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/clean-up-cwindowsinstaller.html Hope that helps share|improve this answer answered Jan 11 '15 at 1:56 Leon 1032 add a comment| Your Answer draft saved draft discarded Sign
for Help Receive Real-Time Help Create a Freelance Project Hire for a Full Time Job Ways to Get Help Ask a Question Ask for Help Receive Real-Time Help Create a Freelance Project Hire for a Full Time Job Ways to Get Help Expand Search Submit Close Search Login Join Today Products BackProducts Gigs Live Careers Vendor Services Groups Website Testing Store Headlines Experts Exchange > Questions > Problems removing Orphaned Files using the MSIZAP.exe Want to Advertise Here? Solved Problems removing Orphaned Files using the MSIZAP.exe Posted on 2010-01-12 http://superuser.com/questions/476910/delete-orphaned-msi-files SSRS MySQL Server MS Server OS 1 Verified Solution 7 Comments 7,694 Views Last Modified: 2012-05-08 Hi there, I am running out of space on my C dive. I have Visual Studio 2005 running on my Server, so i have tried to run the MSIZAP.exe command to delete the orphaned files so that this might give me some space. This https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/25047336/Problems-removing-Orphaned-Files-using-the-MSIZAP-exe.html usually works. however today i am getting the following error. Error opening *****\InstallProperties subkey of Products key for **** user. Error:2 Failed to Clear all data. I don't know why this is happening. Does anyone have any idea's on what i can do here? Kind Regards, Putoch. 0 Question by:Putoch Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google LVL 19 Best Solution byderoode This can happen when trying to uninstall an application that puts it's install settings and windows installer keys in Hkey_current_user in stead of Hkey_local_machine, and after installing the application Go to Solution 5 Comments LVL 4 Overall: Level 4 Message Expert Comment by:condortek2010-01-13 Check if for defects in your hard drive and then the registry security, try to clear permissions in the registry, we assuming that you are working with the user Administrator, Regards 0 Message Active 1 day ago Author Comment by:Putoch2010-02-02 This is still a problem for me. i checked for defects but found nothing. 0 LVL 19 Overall: Level 19 MS Server OS 3 MySQL Server 1 SSRS 1 Message Accepted Solution by:deroode2010-
& Install by Heath Stewart Application Lifecycle Management Application Insights Release Management Team Foundation Server Testing Visual Studio Team Services All Languages Visual C++ Visual F# JavaScript https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths/2007/02/01/how-to-safely-delete-orphaned-patches/ TypeScript Python .NET .NET .NET with Beth Massi ASP.NET by Scott Hanselman OData http://ctrlf5.net/?p=152 Team WPF Platform Development Apps for Windows Bing Edge Microsoft Azure Office 365 Development Web Data Development SQL Server SQL Server Data Tools DocumentDB Setup & Install by Heath Stewart About Windows Installer, the .NET Framework, and Visual Studio. How to Safely Delete Orphaned Patches ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ February 1, 2007 by Heath windows installer Stewart (MSFT) // 21 Comments 0 0 0 If Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 fails to install, you might find additional .msp files under %WINDIR%\Installer for each failed attempt. You should not simply delete these patches, however, because if one of the patches was applied successfully to one target product, deleting that patch will cause future maintenance installs – including repairs, patch install, patch error opening installproperties uninstall, and even product uninstall – to fail. After safely identifying orphaned patches, you can delete them. There are a couple of different ways to identify orphaned patches. If you have the Windows SDK or the older Platform SDK installed or are willing to install either, you can use msizap.exe to identify and remove orphaned data files such as patches. Run the following command. You will find msizap.exe in the bin folder of the Windows SDK or Platform SDK installation directory. msizap.exe G! If you don't want to install either SDK just to get this executable, you can determine which patches are registered and applicable and delete extra patches you find under %WINDIR%\Installer. I have attached a simple script to identify which patches are registered – those patches you should not remove. To successfully install the patch if you are having problems, please read about known issues with Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 and available workarounds.
WiMsps.zip Back totop Search this blog Search all blogs Share This PostShareShareShareShareShare Recent Posts Changes to Visual Studio "15" Setup September 15, 2016 Insert GUIDs directly into Visual Studio Code January 30, 2016 Ga "Unable to open sub key" or "Error 1402.Could not open key:" or "Error 1402.Could not open key: UNKNOWN\Components\XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" etc. Most of these errors are because you have already installed this product and un-installation or upgrade of the product did not complete properly. Hence there are some registry keys left with bad ACL's in the registry. The work around I mention here is for OS's Windows XP Sp2 and above. Meaning, you are seeing this problem either in Windows XP or Windows Vista or Windows 7. Open "RegEdit" and browse to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components Right Click on Components select permissions Click Advanced Select the "Owner" Tab Select Administrators (Group) as owner and Click Apply. Then Select Checkbox that says "Replace owner on sub containers and objects" and Click apply. Browse back to the Permissions tab, select the Check box that says "Replace all child objects with inheritable permissions from this object" and Click apply You should see couple of Warnings similar to below image, but those are fine. Its just complaining about some restricted windows components. Hope this helps some one Tags: Microsoft, MSI, Technology, Windows 192 Responses to How to resolve “Unable to open Sub key” Error when installing an MSI package? Josh Romero February 6th, 2010 at 9:21 pm Thanks! Helped alot and was very simple to follow! lai February 7th, 2010 at 2:49 pm thanks for the tutorial! it was exactly what i needed! Albert Wydeen March 28th, 2010 at 10:53 pm Thanks a million, you are a life saver. I tried several times to get my SDK to install but ran into registery problems. Your solution worked like a charm David Tee April 7th, 2010 at 6:39 am Thanks so much for those instructions. I kept having trouble installing microsoft office 2010 Beta. I looked all over the internet for my kind of trouble. Come here and it worked like a charm. mbm April 11th, 2010 at 4:42 pm You saved me. Ralph Rainwater April 16th, 2010 at 7:28 am I add my thanks to you for your very simple, very effective instructions. Microbit April 18th, 2010 at 1:46 pm Finally, a solution that worked! Bless you. ashley April 20th, 2010 at 3:51 am omg mate i cannot believe it. I was pulling my hair out solving this problem then came accross your solution and it worked a trick. You wouldnt believe how thankful I am to you for this. Your a legend and a life saver!! I had problems with the registry when trying to install cs4 photoshop. even the clean cs4 did not work amongst other crap tutorials. Your however