Windows 10: "Install server not responding" msg when I try to Uninstall or Install SW

Hi, I hope someone can help with this problem. When I try to uninstall Webex or try to install TurboTax, I get the popup message of: "Install server not responding" with the options of "try again" or "cancel" - I have a Lenovo IdeaPad L340 with 8GB of memory, but typically only 2GB is free to run stuff. - It was originally Windows 10, but then it got automatically upgraded Windows 11. - It now says it has: Windows 11 Home, Ver: 23H2, OS Build: 2631.4602 - Installed on: 5/24/2023 - I am running Norton 360 and Malwarebytes runtime anti-virus software. Note: When I went to create th

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"Install server not responding" error in Windows Installer

Windows version: Windows 10 21H1 (OS build 19043.985)

Hi! I have a problem with Windows Installer when I try to install (or uninstall) any .msi file or any other program that uses Windows Installer for the installation process. I keep getting either "Install server not responding" or "Installer is no longer responding" errors. Clicking retry just gives the same error a couple of seconds later. For reference, I was trying to install Microsoft's PowerToys and ProtonVPN, and I've tried to uninstall some other programs.

Things I've tried up to now:

• restarting the Windows Installer service (msiserver) in Task Manager
• unregistering and reregistering the Installer service through CMD
• running Microsoft's Program Install and Uninstall troubleshooter
• running System File Checker

I get the same errors for both uninstalling and installing. I can uninstall a program using the aformentioned Program Install and Uninstall troubleshooter, but I'd have to run it for every uninstall which uses Windows Installer, and it doesn't help with installing something.

I attached screenshots of the errors.

 

How do you uninstall chipset drivers?

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Can't find any uninstall options in add/remove programs and intel chipset inst listed in driver cleaner.

Any suggestions? *Confused

 

Windows Installer doesn't install or uninstall

Hi sorry for the long delay to reply...

Ive read the sections related to my problem, but unfortunately didn't solve my problem

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i want to be sure that i explained the full idea so ill explain the problem in another way:

Installing:

• i run an msi installation
• next next next...
• now "Instlaling" (where installer must request admin rights)
• then... nothing, just dsnt do anything

i cant close or do anything, it closes after a long time with a msg says installer stopped responding so it'll close

Uninstalling:

• enter CP > Programs and Features
• click on something to uninstall
• next next....
• "uninstalling"...

then like installing, nothing happens and doesn't close without that same message of installing case