Cannot launch .msi from portable TCUP

[nacinader]

I have built a portable Total Commander Ultima Prime v4.7
So far everything works great, but as of last night I ran into a problem launching the installation of VMWare Workstation 6 from it.

My event viewer shows: Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x80040154.

I have researched the issue and fould several fixes for the Windows Installer Service which is apparently the cause of the problem.

This morning at my office, I tried launching another installation for another application, this time it was an msi packaged application.

It created the same problem, the application failed to start with an error message like the one I got at home.

But to my surprise, running the same msi package from the windows run dialog started the application with no problems. I did not try any trouble shooting at all, so I wonder why is it behaving this way.

Thanks for your help,

Nacinader

[ULTIMA PRIME]

What accounts types were you using when you received error messages?

Is it possible that it works perfectly with administrator account for you?