On 08/30/2014 09:37 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 19:11 30/08/2014 +0100, Brian Barker wrote: >>At 12:36 30/08/2014 -0400, Carl W. Entemann wrote: >>>... I cannot get Open Office installed on my IBM Thinkpad T30 with >>>2 meg of RAM. After downloading the install software and running it >>>I get the usual setup messages and then I get the following screen: >>>[Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable : Object already exists] >>> >>>I click OK and things proceed in what seems to be a normal manner >>>until I get this screen: >>>[The wizard was interrupted ...] >>> >>>Can anything be done so that I can install Open Office? >> >>There is some suggestion that one of the August Windows Updates has >>caused problem with Windows Installer. You may want to try this: >>o Go to Programs and Features in Control Panel. >>o Tick "Show updates" if necessary. >>o Search in the list of updates for Windows for the one labelled >>KB2918614. (It should be near the bottom, as one of the most recent.) >>o Click it and click Remove. >>o Try the OpenOffice installation again. >>o You may wish to reinstall KB2918614 afterwards. If you have >>Automatic Updates switched on, this should happen without further >>action on your part. It's just possible that you may have to turn >>Automatic Updates off temporarily to prevent this happening before >>you attempt the installation of OpenOffice. > > For the benefit of any other users (and the archives), the original > questioner replied privately "Worked like a charm." > > Brian Barker >
And hopefully the OP confirmed that he reinstalled the KB afterwards. I would think that having to turn off an important Windows security patch: <https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/MS14-049> " Windows Installer Repair Vulnerability - CVE-2014-1814 An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Installer service improperly handles the repair of a previously installed application. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full administrative rights." in order to install AOO to be something that AOO should immediately address. Having a user turn off a Windows security patch in order to install is, IMO, a disaster waiting to happen. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
