meursault
21st July 2006 20:04 UTC

Getting NSIS Error
Hello,

I bought a new laptop yesterday. But when I try to install something new, I get a pop-up message like this :

NSIS Error
Error Launching Installer

Then I tried to install a new version of Microsoft Installer, but this time i got this:

Extraction Failed
The system cannot find the path specified.

And when I tried to install WinRAR, a message said that the exe file couldn't opened.

But the interesting thing is that I installed MSN Messenger without any problem.

I can't even install any version of the NSIS just because of the same problem.

So what do you say?

Thank you very much.

Afrow UK
21st July 2006 22:34 UTC

Sounds like your temp folder could be missing?
What happens if you put %TEMP% into Windows Explorer.

-Stu

meursault
21st July 2006 22:50 UTC

Just an empty folder named Temp is getting opened.

meursault
22nd July 2006 00:47 UTC

In addition, I discovered that when I run the setup files in Windows/Temp folder they are working.

kichik
22nd July 2006 08:10 UTC

Try stopping any running anti-virus/anti-spyware/anti-* software running in the background.

ilgintr
30th April 2007 18:16 UTC

NSIS Error
i have exactly the same problem i stopped running anti-virus/anti-spyware but my problem didnt resolve.
what can i do?

kichik
30th April 2007 18:25 UTC

See Why do I get NSIS Error from the FAQ. If you get a CRC error, the answer is there. If you get "Error Launching Installer", the answer is probably there as well, but the problem is different. If you get "Error Launching Installer", then the installer can't read itself.

mrkimir
2nd December 2007 14:40 UTC

Had the same problem,

discovered that there was a unicode letter (č) in the path. Putting the file somewhere else where no unicode characters are in the path solved the problem.

Best regards

benwah1983
15th December 2007 23:47 UTC

My 2 cents
I don't know if this might help others or not but here are my 2 cents.

I am using Chinese Windows, I downloaded Googletalk installer and it was not launching because the default language for non-unicode applications in Windows was set to Chinese, so I changed it to English, rebooted the computer and we
when launching Google talk installer after that, I was getting:

"NSIS error", "Error launching installer"

The problem as stated above was that the installer could not recognized the path which contained Chinese characters. Moving the installer to a location where the path did not contained Chinese characters fixed this. (C:\ in my case).

-Ben

Wizou
7th February 2008 10:38 UTC

I just reproduced this problem with NSIS 2.34
Just use a character that is not mapped in the current codepage for non-Unicode apps configured for your system

On my French Windows, i just added an arabic character to the filename of the installer executable, and I get the "Error launching installer"

Is there an open bug about this ? or is there no solution ? (until the Unicode-NSIS initiative comes out)

kichik
7th February 2008 20:16 UTC

There is no solution but Unicode.

Wizou
8th February 2008 09:06 UTC

alright.. then maybe a more adequate error message could be displayed...
something like:
"Error launching installer. Make sure you only use basic characters in the file name and path"

(I tried to find a message everybody would understand, plus I don't think this error would popup for other cases like access denied or such, as the user was able to launch the process, it must have read access to it)