Chris: Geek Guy » install http://chris.gg Tech news and other stuff from a UK-based web developer and all-round geek Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:13:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to fix “Google Update installation failed with error 0x8004071c” http://chris.gg/2010/01/how-to-fix-google-update-installation-failed-with-error-0x8004071c/ http://chris.gg/2010/01/how-to-fix-google-update-installation-failed-with-error-0x8004071c/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:09:06 +0000 Chris Barnes http://chris.gg/?p=547 I just tried to install Google Chrome on my Windows 7 machine and was faced with this obscure error message.

I found the answer on the Chrome support site – it’s caused by the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Setup\State\ImageState

Mine was set to IMAGE_STATE_UNDEPLOYABLE. Removing this value enabled the Google Chrome installer to proceed as normal.

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