Greetings,

I have just upgraded my Windows 8 to Windows 10, accepting a Microsoft offer that popped up in my PC.

Problem is that, now, I cannot install any application that uses InstalShield.

  1. InstallShield setup.exe stopped working after upgrade to Windows 10 Greetings, I have just upgraded my Windows 8 to Windows 10, accepting a Microsoft offer that popped up in my PC.
  2. From there I would run the'sfc /scannow' command, then update your installshield engine and possibly the Windows Installer (to 3.1) if you don't already have it installed. Then retry the install. I think you will have more success with the regedit way.
  3. Click the 'Start' button, type 'Windows Update' in the Search box and press 'Enter.' Wait for the Windows Update icon to appear in the search results, and then double-click on it to launch the software. Click 'Check for updates' on the upper-left side of the screen and wait for the computer to scan for any updates needed for your system.
  4. If you want to change the update settings, choose a preferred time to do this, such as while you will be asleep or at work. Alternately, you can select another option under the 'Important Updates' menu.

Short story:

Right-click the Installshield folder, and then click Rename. Type InstallShield1, and then press ENTER. Try to install the game. If the problem continues to occur, go to Method 2. Method 2: Download and install the latest Windows Installer package To install the latest Windows Installer, visit the following Microsoft Web site. MSIX Conversion Wizard: Easily convert any MSI file into an MSIX package using the MSIX Conversion Wizard. MSIX Validation Suite: Smoothly identify what existing InstallShield projects require changes to meet Microsoft MSIX standards. Provides insights and steps needed to convert MSI project elements to work in MSIX. InstallShield is a utility that automatically searches for software updates and performs the updates without any user interaction. The utility eliminates the hassle of manually updating your.

Installshield Wizard Windows 10 Update Download

After the upgrade, when I run InstallShield’s setup.exe from an installation DVD, a small window pops up saying “Oblivion setup is preparing the InstallShield Wizard, etc, etc.”.

The progress bar starts filling and, about 30% of the way, an error message pops up saying “Setup.exe stopped working”. Sometimes (about 1 in 10), the progress bar goes up to 60% filled, but it crashes the same way.

The InstallShield welcome screen itself never shows up.

Long story:

With Windows 10, one of my games behaved erratic and I decided to reinstall it. The uninstall process presented the same error as above. Elmo math olympiad pdf. From a suggestion in a Forum, I used Revo Uninstall and it seems it solved the initial problem, but, as aforementioned, the install problem remains.

The game is Oblivion and it does not have a compatibility problem. The game community has more that a million people and I am sure thousands and thousands of them use Windows 10. Also, I have uninstalled and reinstalled this same DVDs on several windows versions over the last years.

Installshield Wizard Windows 10 Update Assistant

Already tried:

  • Install other DVDs, from different vendors, and ALL that use InstallShield present exactly the same problem. Applications that use other installers install fine (all DVDs installed many times in previous Windows versions).
  • Run as administrator
  • Installing with antivirus program off.
  • Run “sfc /scannow and it did not find anything wrong.
  • Installing in Safe Mode.
  • Run from another user account
  • Copied the DVD to HD and tried all compatibility options in the launcher that calls setup.exe (setup.exe, itself, does not show a compatibility tab)
  • Following a suggestion in an old MS article about InstallShield problems, I renamed the InstallShield folder to InstallShieldA in 'C:Program Files (x86)Common Files'. No luck. A new InstallShield folder was created (so I suppose it is an updated version).
  • Checked Windows update (says the last verification was 8:08, this morning).
  • Trying every several times a day, in the silly hope that it may work, this time. Noticed that every try adds a line in Task Manager titled: “InstallShield (R) 64-bit Setup Engine”.

In all tries, the result was exactly the same.

Assuming that InstallShield is not bugged, my guess is that it encounters something it is not prepared to handle, and that weird something is a result of the Windows upgrade process (or even a pre-existing weirdness that Windows 8 did not care about).

Any idea of what may be the problem?

Or maybe a pointer to some internal Windows log that may have more details of what is happening behind the scene?

Windows 10 Update Assistant

Specs: Windows 10 Pro x64, Processor: Intel i7-3770 3.5Ghz, memory: 16Gb.

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