What is Windows Installer

Clarifications

Unless of course you aren't running Windows, in which case one would wonder what it's doing there in the first place.

You cannot install anything - including Windows Updates without the [u]Windows Installer[/u]! [i][b]Sheesh.[/b][/i]

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Because you'll be tearing your hair out from now on when everything in your system comes to a grinding halt, as soon as you go looking for an update. ;)

Well it depends on what you want to do. If it's a First Step in deleting Windows of any form and running any Other OS then no there will not be any problems.

If it is the first step in deleting Vista and installing XP Pro then no there will be no problems.

However if you are just deleting it for the fun of it and want to continue to run that copy of Windows without repairing it you will be unable to add anything at all to the System the moment that you delete the Installer.

While this may be a perceived way to stop infections of the System I personally wouldn't want to believe that without a lot of testing as I'm sure that the Virus Writers and Malware Writers are much smarter that the people who do the coding for M$ and I believe that the system will continue to get infected but now you will be unable to do anything about the infections that the computer pickup.

So in answer to your question I would say [b]Most Defiantly[/b] It will cripple your install of Windows and stop the system being usable for the long term. While that may not be a bad thing it would have been much cheaper not to buy the computer in the first place so you can not use one.

Col