Windows – How to fix multiple Google Talk Plugin “unsuccessful application installation” errors daily

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I was reminded by a recent Lifehacker article about the Reliability Monitor tool in Windows 7. This morning I opened Reliability Monitor and was greeted by this:

my Reliability Monitor page, report dated 4 Aug 2012

There are 5 warnings daily for the Google Talk Plugin. An example of the "technical details":

screen from "view technical details", dated 5 Aug 2012

Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: Google Talk Plugin. Product Version: 3.3.3.8675. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Google. Installation success or error status: 1603.

This problem has been going on all the way back to 12 November 2011, but I just noticed it in Reliability Monitor today.

The thing is, I can't uninstall the Google Talk plugin because it isn't even listed in Programs and Features!

Programs and Features, sorted by publisher. dated 7 August 2012

Any advice, Super Users? What's going on here? Is this normal behavior? If not, how do I fix it?

Best Answer

For me the issue likely started with a bad install of Chrome and a fix that required editing the registry (HKCU/Software/Google/Update/Clients and ../ClientState).

The solution (to the Gtalk Plugin error 1603() issue was to use the following tool (http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall/) to scan, choose "problems installing a program", then selecting "Google Talk Plugin" from the list it provided and when that was done, then to revisit http://www.google.com/talk/ and "Install video chat plug-in".

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