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Windows Modules Installer - Error 1450 Insufficient System Resources
- I've run into a major problem with the release of Windows 7 Enterprise. It seems that somewhere along the line after installing my applications, the Windows Modules Installation Service has decided to stop working.
When trying to start the service through Services Management I get the following: "Windows could not start the Windows Modules Installer service on Local Computer. Error 1450: Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service."
This means that Windows Update doesn't find updates, sysprep fails, and I get a blank list for "Turn Windows features on or off".
Can anyone help?
(update: After testing with some clean installs of Windows 7 Enterprise, it looks like the problem happens after installing ArcGIS Arcinfo Workstation 9.3. Uninstalling did not fix it.)
trelf- Edited bytrelf Sunday, August 23, 2009 5:56 PM
- Moved byRonnie VernonMVP, ModeratorMonday, August 24, 2009 5:57 AMFocus (From:Windows 7 Installation, Setup, and Deployment)
Answers
- I can't take credit for this, so big thanks to Jim Tochterman!
Resolution -
1) If you are receiving the "Low Registry Space" error, set the Registry Size Limit to "unlimited":
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control
Key: RegistrySizeLimit
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0xffffff (4294967295)
2) Reboot
3) As a Administrator open a Command Prompt and run "SFC /SCANNOW". The command should complete successfully and if any errors were found, they should be corrected.
This was posted on the ESRI forums, from someone who noticed that Visual Studio 2008 was related to the error. Personally I'm not sure if it was VS, or just installing the .net framework. Here's the link for more chatter on the topic... http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=1148&t=287391
- Proposed As Answer byBrian Borg Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:30 PM
- Marked As Answer byDale QiaoMSFT, ModeratorMonday, September 28, 2009 3:19 AM
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- Trelf,
I have this problem as well. It occured for me after installing ArcGIS Server 9.3 however. It's a little disconcerting as this problem did not exist when installed the same version of ArcGIS software on the Windows 7 Release Candidate. I am not going to install ArcGIS Server, I will install the 9.3.1 update to see if it will correct the problem. I will post an update here if it does...
Jim - I too run ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 on Windows 7 and had this problem with win7 RC as well as the RTM version. After many re-installs of the OS, I have found the Windows Modules Installer service breaks prior to installing any ESRI software. It seems that after some Windows Updates are run, the Modules Installer service breaks after the machine is re-booted. The error is 1450.
Everysolution I found online does not work. - I can't take credit for this, so big thanks to Jim Tochterman!
Resolution -
1) If you are receiving the "Low Registry Space" error, set the Registry Size Limit to "unlimited":
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control
Key: RegistrySizeLimit
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0xffffff (4294967295)
2) Reboot
3) As a Administrator open a Command Prompt and run "SFC /SCANNOW". The command should complete successfully and if any errors were found, they should be corrected.
This was posted on the ESRI forums, from someone who noticed that Visual Studio 2008 was related to the error. Personally I'm not sure if it was VS, or just installing the .net framework. Here's the link for more chatter on the topic... http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=1148&t=287391
- Proposed As Answer byBrian Borg Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:30 PM
- Marked As Answer byDale QiaoMSFT, ModeratorMonday, September 28, 2009 3:19 AM
- Excellent find, stauaj! I followed the link to the ESRI forums and did the test steps recommended by Jim T and was able to duplicate his findings. Did the registry change, rebooted, and sure enough the Modules Installer service is now starting and stopping normally.
I'm not totally sure why there is a RegistrySizeLimit to begin with, probably a security measure, but when building this Windows 7 system I did install a good number of large apps, including the ArcGIS, all of which dump a lot of entries into the system registry, so it's no suprise now that my registry size became overloaded.
Thanks for the help - Trelf/Stauaj,
Glad to hear that solution worked for you! It was such a pain to figure out... what made it so much more frustrating was the fact that the Release Candidate was so rock solid. Anyway, glad to see folks are getting some use out of my solution. If anyone else looks for the main posting for the fix, you can also find it at the following URL -> http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=1148&t=287391&m=902480#902480
Thanks,
Jim - i used windows 7 tuning, hope this was the one that corrupted windows 7 rc , any ideas
- the update is not applicable to your computer
MOHAMMED
