Microsoft KB Archive/266382

BUG: HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH Environment Variables Not Set in Windows Installer

Q266382

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows Installer, versions 1.0, 1.1, on platform(s):
- the operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you use the system environment variables HOMEDRIVE or HOMEPATH in a Windows Installer installation package, you may receive an error message like this one during the installation:

2343 - Specified path is empty

CAUSE

This is due to a bug in the Windows Installer environment variable retrieval code. This bug is only present on Windows 2000 and does not apply to Windows NT 4.0.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date      Time    Version      Size     File name    Platform
   -------------------------------------------------------------
   7-17-2000         1.11.1820    1.69 MB  msi.dll      x86

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbAppSetup kbOSWin2000 kbMSI _IK kbMSI100bug kbMSI110bug kbWin2000PreSP2Fix kbWin2000SP2Fix
Issue type : kbbug
Technology : kbWinISearch