Paul Liebrand's Weblog

Welcome to my blog mainly about SharePoint

Skip to: Content | Sidebar | Footer

Windows 7 and App has stopped working

19 January, 2009 (09:16) | Windows 7 | By: Paul Liebrand

I have been using the public beta of Windows 7 for a couple days now and everything has been working perfectly. All of a sudden some of my software would not install. It would simply come up with an error message stating “Appname has stopped working”.

It turns out that any software installer that used MSI files would not work. After sometime of troubleshooting and searching the web I found a solution buried in a forum post on TechNet.

  1. Start Regedit
  2. Navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisableSessions
  3. Rename MachineThrottling to _MachineThrottling

After doing this all MSI related installation programs will work again. The great part about this is you do not even have to reboot.

Source: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/1594abfb-0e3b-4580-b42c-c15d0ee850ec/

Post to Twitter Post to Delicious Post to Digg Post to Facebook Post to Reddit

Tags:

«
»

  • this is pretty useful information dude... I have been using Windows 7 Beta on a machine at work and I have not run into this issue yet??? If and when I do I know I will return here for the answer! Thanks...
  • hemant kumar
    i Navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisableSessions
    then i dont fouond "MachineThrottling" where i fouond this plese suggest me detail.
  • Sushil Kafle
    ya like hemant kumar, I also didn't find the MachineThrottling.
blog comments powered by Disqus