Comments on: Windows Installer Error 2908 when installing bulky setup projects

By: Andrei Smolin

Andrei Smolin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:22:15 +0000

Hello Raul,

You don’t need to delete any files or folders. What you need to delete is a registry key. To find the key, please find the following text in this post first:

“Deleting the following key restores the functionality of the Windows Installer:”

Starting from this sentence I describe what registry key you need to delete and how to find it on your PC.

By: Raul

Raul — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:28:56 +0000

Hello friends, I’m from Ecuador, and I’d like that someone can help me, I have the same problem, but tell me, what do I have to do, I mean what files or folders do I have to delete??…
Thanks…

By: Oliver Thomas

Oliver Thomas — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:01:13 +0000

Didn’t work for me unfortunately. Trying to install Bonjour for Windows. Tried the reg fix plus temporarily moving the two .dll mentioned above but still no luck :(

By: Deepan

Deepan — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:42:12 +0000

I had this issue while installing Concept systems application on LAN. Not all teh PC’s had this issue but some did have this issue the application failing to install with teh error 2908.

Finally after working on the issue for two days…breaking my hear over the .dot
versions on the computers this post finally helped me resolve the issue.

Thankx a ton!!!

By: Deadman0309

Deadman0309 — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:56:20 +0000

This post have resolved my issue.

Thanks a lot!!!!!!

By: phani

phani — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:15:02 +0000

This fix didnt work for me

By: Sachin Patki

Sachin Patki — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:51:39 +0000

Seems like it is working for me as well…… :-)

Thanks a lot… this has saved my time. I was reinstalling Winmobile 7 (OS, SDK) on XP when ran into this error. I was thinking of formating the XP machine….

Thanks,
Sachin

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:36:30 +0000

Thanks you very much Gabe.
You are a life saver.

Good job.

I am sure for all the people you helped they will be greatly thankfull to you.

By: KosmiK

KosmiK — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:05:58 +0000

Thank you, thank you. This worked for me, and allowed me to install NPCL tools for Visual Studio 2008 (after a lot of head-scratching).

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:55:10 +0000

Thank you so much! This is a great tip.