by butsch
18. August 2022 10:54
W10, 21H2, Disk D: and e: ripped out and moved to new PC, Error on old PC with just the c: and 21H2
Problem:
Error 2203.Database: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\inprogressinstallinfo.ipi. Cannot open database file. System error -2147287037.
Your are unable to install OR uninstall any software regular way with ADD/REMOVE under W10/W11.
Error 2203.Database: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\inprogressinstallinfo.ipi. Cannot open database file. System error -2147287037.
Solution 1:
You have virtualized an old machine or a local disk where the %TEMP% was located as exmaple d: or e: does not exist anymore. Or you don't have correct write permission on the %temp% folder. (maybe Lock of malware)
Fix the %TEMP% variable and you should be able to use Windows Installer. Reboot the client and try again.
Or use commandline to check where it points:
Cmd.exe
Set | find /i "temp"
Or just
set
Also check the temp file in your user profile appdata
Solution 2:
Re-register Windows Installer Service (No feedback is fine ;-)
Solution 3:
Check Permission on Windows Installer Reg key
Solution 4:
Check the whole windows elevated
Cmd.exe (Run as Administrator)
sfc.exe /scannow
Solution 5:
Run a checkdisk
And Reboot
If you have not solved it until here well one one test machine VM we ripped out a d: e: DISK
And just run c: for some times we could not solve too, sorry
Maybe it helped
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