Windows cannot uninstall this program, because another program is being installed.

I use Vista Home Basic Edition on Sony Vaio

When I try to uninstall QuickTime player (or any other program) I get a message saying "the program cannot be uninstalled because another program is being installed. Please wait for the program to complete the installation and try again. »

I'm not busy to install all programs and no matter how many times I reboot my computer, I still get the same message.

The reason why I want to uninstall quicktime (and all associated software Apple) is that I am trying to install iTunes on my laptop (to work with my iPod) but get a message saying that the installation cannot be performed because I need Quicktime Player.  I have quicktime on my laptop and it works, so they told me to uninstall and remove all Apple programs and then install iTunes.

Problem is just that I can't seem to uninstall all the programs.

I tried to fix this by removing the quicktime in my program files. And when I try install quicktime again once I get the same message saying that I have to wait for another installation program before you continue the installation of quicktime.

At this point, I'm ready to try and "restore default settings", even if it means losing a lot of data. I just put the files I want to keep and restore my laptop. If it works I will, because I don't see otherwise.

The Publisher of the registry (regedit.exe), navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\InProgress

and delete the entries that you can find.

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