Installer encountered an error: 0×80070422

// February 26th, 2009 // Technology

There are times when it becomes painfully obvious just Why I Avoid Windows as much as possible…

Today I downloaded the Windows Media Streaming Server package for Windows 2008 Server x64 from Microsoft, and when I tried to install it I got the following pretty, intuitive and self-explanatory error message:

Installer encountered an error: 0×80070422
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

What this actually means is “This software package requires that the Windows Update Service and that BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) are running during installation”.

Now, granted, it was not all that difficult to find this answer on Google. But really, wouldn’t it be much easier just to have more descriptive error messages to begin with?

Oh well. In a perfect world perhaps.

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