From: "Geo." 

Are you running the same antivirus on both machines?

Geo.

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:45e74920$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>I now have a second laptop that is throwing this error.
>
> I don't believe either have a date error.  On one, it appears to be a
> partial update to .Net 2.0.
>
> For example, when I go to uninstall the Blackberry Desktop software, it
> stops in the middle, and says that there is a pending install for .Net 2.0
> that has to be completed prior to being able to do this uninstall.  There
> is a pending .Net security patch (machine is cloning the HD at the moment,
> so I can't look as to the exact pending update).
>
> I've already installed the latest 3.1.1 V2 installer on the original
> machine.
>
> When this error comes up, sometimes the error will get in a continuous
> loop, calling itself over and over again.  I've got to kill the
> msiexec.exe from the Task manager to get out of it.
>
> .
>
> --
>
> Glenn M.
> "Rich"  wrote in message news:45e66b76{at}w3.nls.net...
>   The error simply means that the application in question called abort()
> directly or indirectly.  There is an ambiguity in the message.  The title
> is the name of the EXE in the process containing the C runtime.  It may
> not be the caller of abort().  In other words, this may not be a problem
> with MSIEXEC but instead with the component being installed.  Then again,
> it might be MSIEXEC but if you installed the latest release of 3.1 I would
> expect it to be this.  It could be something weird like geo suggested with
> a far future date that causes some CRT functions to appropriately call
> abort().
>
> Rich
>
>  "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:45e5d0f7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>  Done yesterday, no joy.  I'll read the thread and see if any other helps
> are
>  available.  Since the laptop is actually being cleaned off from the prior
>  user, I might just grab the original Toshiba Restore CD, and let it wipe
>  everything and start it again from square one.
>
>  Sure would like to fix it though, for adding to troubleshooting library.
>  .
>
>  Rich, you have any thoughts on this one?
>
>  --
>
>  Glenn M.
>  "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>  news:45e5cbcb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>  >
>  > "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
>  > news:45e5c743{at}w3.nls.net...
>  >> OK, need some help with this one.
>  >>
>  >> I've now got a laptop that has started throwing the error listed below
> no
>  >> matter how I try to apply updates.  Either from our WSUS server, or
> from
>  >> Windows or Microsoft Update.  The Laptop is a Toshiba, and is an OEM,
> so
>  >> it passes WGA validation properly.
>  >>
>  >> The error displayed is:
>  >>
>  >> Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library.
>  >>
>  >> Program C:\Windows\system32\msiexec.exe
>  >> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
> unusual
>  >> way.  Please contact the Application Support Team for more
> information.
>  >>
>  >> That's it, total.
>  >>
>  >> Any clues, pointers on what I might need to download/re-install to
> clear
>  >> this error/problem?
>  >>
>  >> Thanks.
>  >>
>  >> --
>  >>
>  >> Glenn M.
>  >>
>  > not sure if it's applicable as the answer below was for a similar error
>  > in 2003 server.
>  >
>  >
> http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.update_service
s/browse_thread/thread/607fc5e67677121c/bd4c375299c675a9%23bd4c375299c675a9
>  >
>  > Download the current version of Windows Installer 3.1v2 from the
> Microsoft
>  > Download Center and (re)install it on this system.
>  > ---------------
>  >
>  > A Google Groups search shows others have experenced the error
>  >
>  >
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=windows+update+msiexec.exe++terminate+it+in
+an+unusual+&hl=en&sa=X&oi=groups&ct=title
>  >
>
>
>

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