Denis W. Veteran Posted May 29, 2008 Veteran Share Posted May 29, 2008 I've found the embedded XPS viewer (the one which opens in IE) to be clunky and slow. The solution to that is to install the faster XPS Essentials Pack reader, but for many people the install mysteriously fails, typically on XP. The error message is: Product: XPS Essentials Pack -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action WICUpdateInstallAction, location: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI1A1.tmp, command: /q /z Reinstalling .NET Framework 3.x won't work. Being forced to keep IE7 as the default browser just so the XPS viewer can work is not an option for me. :p The fix is posted here. Here it is in case it disappears: OK easy going. As we see in the logs of the MSI setup, the WICUpdateInstallAction is the culprit.I had .NET 3.0/3.5 uninstalled on my XP SP2 machine (German) but still wasn't able to install XPSEP. I had the same WIC complaints in my log I generated by msiexec /i XPSEP.msi /lx* xpsep.log (or was it /lx without *). I had WIC, Windows Imaging Component, installed as a prerequisite to Windows Live Photo Gallery. But I couldn't remove it from Add/Remove Programs any longer. Running the WIC Update again (wic_x86_deu.exe in my case) didn't help much in regard to the XPSEP installer. Uninstalling Live Gallery was no help at all. There is a brute force solution to that :-) 1. Make sure you uninstalled the .NET 3.x things (no %windir%\system32\xpsviewer folder anymore) 2. Make sure you have WIC installed or install it. 3. Get yourself Orca, the MSI database editor from MS (you may have to get a Windows Platform SDK in order to get access to the Orca.msi); I used Orca 3.1.4000.2049 4. Make a copy of your XPSEP MSI. 5. Right-click on the copy - "Edit with Orca" 6. Go to InstallExecuteSequence. 7. Find the Row labelled WICUpdateInstallAction - Right-click - "Drop Row". 8. Save. 9. Double-click the MSI copy you just edited. 10. Hopefully, the installer should run through fine. 11. Reinstall .NET 3.x and all other things you uninstalled beforehand. Hope that helps, Markus If you need a copy of Orca, try getting it here. So now I can continue having Firefox as default browser and succesfully open XPS documents. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musefrog Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Brilliant! This fix worked perfectly for me. I registered just to make this post, and express my thankfulness :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts