On a windows XP system, I try to download and install Windows Desktop Search 4.0 and it fails.
The error I get:
Windows Search 4.0 could not be installed on this system.
For more details, check the log file.
(C:\Windows\KB940157.log)
The contents of that file: http://pastebin.com/MW37NXCy
No idea how to resolve this. Any help is extremely appreciated!
Uninstall any previous version of WDS, if you can't uninstall via add/remove programs, run this file:
%windir%\$NtUninstallKB917013$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
If this doesn't work either, delete the following registry keys:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SP3\KB917013"
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\KB917013"
... and try again.
Doing a bit of reading around your topic i have found this article which has been used by people getting similar errors as yourself, regarding WDS 3.1 albeit.
This has seemed to fix the problem in most cases I have seen it mentioned.
Link
Its these two lines that got me thinking it could be a registry error:
17.0.579: In Function TestVolatileFlag, line 12013, RegOpenKeyEx failed with error 0x2
18.0.579: In Function TestVolatileFlag, line 12045, RegOpenKeyEx failed with error 0x2
Worth a try, anyway. Let us know how it goes.
I'm not sure that this is your problem, but, I do know that "Windows Desktop Search 4.0" will only install on a 32-bit machine.
You have to install Windows Desktop Search 3.01 for Windows XP x64 Edition version on 64-bit computers.
