Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Install Problems (Msfeeds.dll)

If you happened to download the newly released public beta of IE7. You might have faced install problems regarding msfeeds.dll missing. This is a common problem that is being faced by a lot of users. It took a long time but I finally was able to install it! Heres what works…

1. Close all spyware detection programs. If you have spybot S&D installed and have immunized your system, you may want to tick that option off first.

2. Reboot your computer so that any previously failed installations are removed.

3. Run regedit.exe and expand HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

Change each the following keys in the way given below:

.hta

htafile

.tif

.tiff

.prf

prffile

a. ON EACH FILE, RIGHT-CLICK ON THE ENTRY IN THE LEFT PANE AND SELECT
“PERMISSIONS”

b. In the Permissions dialog box, select the “administrators” group

c. In the lower pane, check the boxes for “full control” and “read”, then
click the ADVANCED button.

d. From the Advanced Security Settings Dialog box, select “Administrators”
and then click the EDIT button

e. From the Permissions Entry dialog box, check the first item in the list
for “FULL CONTROL”

f. At the bottom of this dialog box, BE SURE TO CHECK THE BOX FOR ‘Apply
these permissions to objects and/or containers within this container only”

4. Reboot your computer

5. Install IE7 and it should work!!

Incase this fails to work then use this solution which is guaranteed to work..(A little more advanced)

1- Download regmon.exe from sysinternals
(http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/regmon.html)
2- Run regmon.exe (the application will start logging a bunch of stuff,
don’t worry about it)
3- Press Ctrl-E (or in the menu, uncheck File->Capture Events) to stop
capturing events.
4- Press Ctrl-L (or in the menu, go to Options->Filter/Highlight) to create
a filter/
5- In the Regmon Filter dialog:
    a- In “Include:” type: “update.exe”
    b- Tick all the checkboxes at the bottom besides “Log Successes”.
    c- Click OK
6- Press Ctrl-E (or in the menu, uncheck File->Capture Events) to start
capturing events.
7- Run iesetup.exe (after having rebooted if you did a prior unsuccessful
install).
8- Regmon should show you what keys are failing
9- Go to Start menu->Run, and launch regedit.exe
10- Select the key that’s failing in the left pane, right-click and select
“Permissions…”
11- Make sure that you have “Full Control” Permissions on that key.
12- Reboot (otherwise you won’t be able to reinstall after a failed
installation)
13- Reinstall IE.