MSI Uninstall issue: Error 1001 -> The saved State dictionary contains inconsistent data and might have been corrupted

Question

I need to create a few Windows Services and obviously I would like to package them in a nice installer.

Since I was unfamiliar with Service creation/installation I b

Answer 1

I solved this problem by doing this:

• Go to the folder installation
• Edit the file xxxxxxx.InstallState with notepad or an XML editor (where xxxxx is the name of your service)
• Go to ArrayOfKeyValueOfanyTypeanyType node and then to Keys node
• Delete anyType child
• Go to the Values node and delete all anyType child
• Save the file and try to uninstall

This works for me. regards