When you install Silverlight CTP on Vista operating system, you may receive the following "Error code 2869 " error message:
The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2869.
This problem occurs because you try to install unsafe software without an administrator privilege.
To work around this problem, follow these steps:
- Open the folder where you MSI is located
- Create a new "New Text Document.txt"
- Open the Text Document and add the following msiexec /i "[MSI Name].msi" where [MSI Name] is the installation MSI.
- Save your Text Document as MSI.BAT
- Right Click on the BAT file and Click on the Run as item menu
- Mark the Select user option and enter the administrator username and password.
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