Friends, please help me cope with the following situation: I install any python (for example, python-2.6.6.msi) downloaded from the off site of the python, and I get the following exception during installation.

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Google is silent on this. Maybe something advise. Thank you in advance!

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Try reinstalling the windows installer to some fresh version, and if auto-update is enabled, then it is best to reinstall the system and disable the update (almost always there are glitches in the system after the updates) ... the XP sp2 itself, python 2.6.6, MSVS 2008 - there were no problems ...