I am unable to install Songsmith. Please help. I have an HP Vista Premium (32 bits) with .net 3.5 service Pack 1 installed on my machine. Songsmith installation goes to the very last step except just before “finish” is expected to come up, I get an error message and the program undo the installation and says try again. (I tried numerous times all are unscuccessful). The error message is as follows: Error 1001. The type initializer for ‘System.Management.ManagementPath’ threw an exception --> Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {CF4CC405-E2C5-4DDD-B3CE-5E7582D8C9FA} failed due to the following error: 8007007f
Any advice appreciated
Thanks
FYI I took this offline with the poster; it appears to be the problem described here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa751852.aspx
...where some other software installation has corrupted the WMI service (the service that applications use to ask Windows about the current system configuration).
That page points to the WMI diagnosis utility, which will hopefully fix this problem:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=94685
Hopefully no one else encounters this, but that would be our recommended starting point if anyone else sees this.
Hank, sorry for the inconvenience; I hope this helps you get Songsmith up and running!
-Dan